Mac Quick Look behavior (or similar)
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2025 3:59 am
macOS has a very nice feature called Quick Look that lets you see a popup of a file or image without having to leave your context (i.e., your folder in Finder) in order to get a large preview, and I would love to see that behavior in XnView MP. Obviously, there's already the preview pane, the full view screen/tab, and the "Open with [Application]" action. But sometimes your workflow calls for a layout with the preview pane or you just want a quick-n-easy "fit to screen" peek that doesn't leave or hide your current view. (On macOS, you just hit SPACEBAR to open or close Quick Look.)
As I write this, I'm conscious it could seem like I'm suggesting something that already exists, just without the name or with a slightly different workflow. I think the big thing that Quick Look has that distinguishes it is that it gives you the ability to get a large preview without having to have a preview panel open at all and still without having to fully open the image and lose your view of the context in the background.
As I write this, I'm conscious it could seem like I'm suggesting something that already exists, just without the name or with a slightly different workflow. I think the big thing that Quick Look has that distinguishes it is that it gives you the ability to get a large preview without having to have a preview panel open at all and still without having to fully open the image and lose your view of the context in the background.