Quick way to display the image whose thumbnail is selected in quickview

[ubacher]

If I browse thumbnails and my quick-view panel is closed it is inconvenient to
quickly see the image "full" size because I have to open quick view first (F9-Q)
and afterwards close it again. (Either by moving the mouse to the quickview panel and clicking the close X, or,
by clicking the thumbnail again and pressing F9 Q again. Inconvenient.
Even if screen-real-estate allows one to keep the panel open it is good to keep it closed
for performance reasons.

In the case where the quick-view panel is docked in auto-hide it is more convenient
although it still requires to mouse over to the auto-hide tab.

Proposal:
Shift-clicking a thumbnail should open the quick-view panel.
Shift clicking again (inside the panel or on the thumbnail, i.e. without having to move the mouse pointer) should close it.

[Carlo Didier]

+1

[BanjoTom]

+1 from me, too

[ChrisMatch]

+1 for the topic
but with a different suggestion how to realize it ;-)

My situation:
I am working on a 24 inch monitor which is nice but not too large AND it is a single monitor setup.
This means I don't have space to 'waste' and there is no second monitor where I could keep the quickview open at full size.

The attachment shows my main layout and the quickview gives me a 'larger thumbnail'.
But sometimes I want to have a quick view at the image at full size. ...

My suggestion:
Clicking on a thumbnail and holding down the left mouse button shows a full screen image until
the left mouse button is released.

This way you only need to work with the mouse and it gets as simple as using the left mouse button 
(Which I would prefer over a shift+click solution)

This is exactly how it works in my favorite RAW converter (PhotoNinja) where I use this feature day-to-day.


What do you think?

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[ubacher]

I thought some more about it: there are actually two related operations:
Quickly view the image full screen/big  and
Loupe: Quickly view a particular spot of the image at 100%. This can be done easily once
the image is open in quick view. The challenge is how to do this easiest.

One suggestion is then:
Click and hold: show image full screen. Close on release.
Shift click: Open quick view full screen. Another click allows then the 100% view.
                 Leaves the question of how to quickly close it then?
                 Could this be done on release of the shift key: as long as the SHIFT key is pressed
                 quick view stays up?

[ChrisMatch]

I thought some more about it: there are actually two related operations:
Quickly view the image full screen/big  and
Loupe: Quickly view a particular spot of the image at 100%. This can be done easily once
the image is open in quick view. The challenge is how to do this easiest.

One suggestion is then:
Click and hold: show image full screen. Close on release.
Shift click: Open quick view full screen. Another click allows then the 100% view.
                 Leaves the question of how to quickly close it then?
                 Could this be done on release of the shift key: as long as the SHIFT key is pressed
                 quick view stays up?

a big +1 for your suggestion //hope it gets even more votes