Should QV Panel’s integrated Video Player update the Recently Viewed Collection?

[Tveloso]

When we send files to the Viewer, those files then appear in the Today Node of the Recently Viewed Collection...(and will then move through the other nodes, as time ticks on).  That's true even for Video files, where the Viewer is really only showing us "the thumbnail" / a single frame.  So we're not really viewing the video there.

It's in the Quick View Panel's integrated player, where we can actually view Videos.  So in the case of Video Files, shouldn't it be the QV Panel's Player (instead of the Viewer), that "posts" to the Recently Viewed Collection?

I recently stumbled upon an old video, in a result window of a Visual Similarity Search, which I played multiple times in the QV Panel.  It was very much beside the point of what I was doing though, so I resisted the urge to add Keywords, etc. to that file...(and to move off on a tangent, as I sometimes do when working in IMatch).  I later wanted wanted to find that video again, but no longer remembered which still image had turned it up (and didn't really know where it was in the FileSystem - still in the old Directory Structure that I'm slowly moving away from), so I thought I could find it in the This Week node of the Recently Viewed Collection, but it wasn't there.  There were no Videos at all there in fact, even though I had viewed several others in the QV Panel, over the past several days.

[Mario]

The Quick View Panel currently does not update the file history when a file is displayed, unlike the Viewer or the Slide Show, which do.

Viewing a file in the Viewer or Slide Show is an active act, while navigating in the File Window while the Quick View Panel is open in a panel is not. Although files are displayed in the Quick View Panel in that case, this is often a "side effect" of the user working with the files in the File Window or navigating.

I did not want to flood the file history with "viewed" events when all the user was doing is navigating around in the File Window.

For the special case of video files, I think it would be OK to add a viewed event to the file history when the user actually presses play (or has auto-play enabled).

Thoughts?

[Tveloso]

I did not want to flood the file history with "viewed" events when all the user was doing is navigating around in the File Window.

For the special case of video files, I think it would be OK to add a viewed event to the file history when the user actually presses play (or has auto-play enabled).

I agree.  When files are displayed in the QuickView Panel, as a byproduct of navigating in the file window, this should not be a viewed event.  So only when actively playing videos...(perhaps even auto-play should not count as Viewed?...a tricky distinction there)...

[Mario]

That's how I have implemented this for IMatch 2025. The "viewed" event is added to the file history when the user actively plays the video.