Movable Tabs and Tab Thumbnail Hover Action

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bacree
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Movable Tabs and Tab Thumbnail Hover Action

Post by bacree »

It would be great to have movable tabs, similar to moving tabs around in Chrome. I mainly use XnView to sort through reference photos and they're never in "order", so being able to open a selection of photos and reorganize the tabs would be immensely helpful! Currently if I want to achieve this I have to open photos one by one in the order that I need them and this takes forever.

Also, if there could be a way to hover on a tab to have a larger thumbnail pop up. I'm sure I can make the thumbnails bigger in the tab bar, but it would quickly let me identify a photo before I have to click on it, decide that I don't want that one, go back to the browser and try another. This one is not as critical as the above request/suggestion but could also be helpful when sorting through a ton of images.
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Re: Movable Tabs and Tab Thumbnail Hover Action

Post by cday »

bacree wrote:It would be great to have movable tabs, similar to moving tabs around in Chrome. I mainly use XnView to sort through reference photos and they're never in "order", so being able to open a selection of photos and reorganize the tabs would be immensely helpful! Currently if I want to achieve this I have to open photos one by one in the order that I need them and this takes forever.
You have that in XnView MP... :D
Also, if there could be a way to hover on a tab to have a larger thumbnail pop up. I'm sure I can make the thumbnails bigger in the tab bar, but it would quickly let me identify a photo before I have to click on it, decide that I don't want that one, go back to the browser and try another. This one is not as critical as the above request/suggestion but could also be helpful when sorting through a ton of images.
Pierre?
bacree
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Re: Movable Tabs and Tab Thumbnail Hover Action

Post by bacree »

haha, I didn't even realize that there was a newer version :) Kinda bummed you have to hold down Ctrl to open multiple photos but it'll work.
Jdev
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Re: Movable Tabs and Tab Thumbnail Hover Action

Post by Jdev »

bacree wrote:
It would be great to have movable tabs, similar to moving tabs around in Chrome. I mainly use XnView to sort through reference photos and they're never in "order", so being able to open a selection of photos and reorganize the tabs would be immensely helpful! Currently if I want to achieve this I have to open photos one by one in the order that I need them and this takes forever.
cday wrote:
You have that in XnView MP... :D
Actually, it would be great if XnView Classic had the moveable thumbs tabs feature as well, since it seems to work better for me in other respects.

Thanks!
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Re: Movable Tabs and Tab Thumbnail Hover Action

Post by xnview »

Jdev wrote: since it seems to work better for me in other respects.
why?
Pierre.