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In the Browser, you can assign categories by pressing F9 to focus the Categories panel. But that doesn't work when viewing an image.

If I right click and choose Properties -> Categories, I get a completely useless read-only list of all categories, with checkboxes that can't be checked, and no auto-completion.

Is this a huge oversight or am I missing something? Isn't this a common workflow - go through each image and tag it with categories?

I've defined shortcuts for certain categories, and they don't work either.

In the Browser, you can assign categories by pressing F9 to focus the Categories panel. But that doesn't work when viewing an image.

Unfortunately

If I right click and choose Properties -> Categories, I get a completely useless read-only list of all categories, with checkboxes that can't be checked, and no auto-completion.

Yes

Is this a huge oversight or am I missing something?

The former.

Isn't this a common workflow - go through each image and tag it with categories?

It is. Let us put some pressure on Pierre.

However, you can have two solutions here:

1. Have a two monitor setup (this will help you a lot for many things, not only XnView related) and put the FullScreen mode on the 2nd monitor. Then this will act as a very powerful preview for your image.

2. Go to View | Layout and choose one of the layouts with big previews like one of the Filmstrips or check the Free option and drag and drop the panes in order to do a layout suitable to your needs. You can save it after. Something like this:

I'm sorry to dig up such an old thread; I'm a new user, and maybe I'm missing something. I'd like to use the categories more, but I find it very weird that they cannot be assigned from the image browser. This is like the #1 feature I would like to have, as I don't have multiple monitors and would find it very helpful to be able to achieve this from within the viewer - especially since when leaving the viewer, I'm not aware of a quick way to jump to the last image that was viewed.

Is there any chance that the ability to assign categories from within it might be implemented at some point?