[Enhancement] Use Quickview in other views

[Jonatan Nyberg]

Please make Quickview usable in other views than library view, for example, one could show the title and authors in the Quickview window when clicking on books in the grid view.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Changing the component for this bug.

 assignee cbhaley
 status triaged

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every alternate Friday.

 status fixreleased

[Jonatan Nyberg (bugreporter41)]

Thank you for fixing this! Please also make it possible to change in the preferences of which value to display in Quick view? For example if I want to see the book tags in Quick view when selecting a book.

[Charles Haley (cbhaley)]

Starting in the next release: just double-click in the column you want to switch the view to those values in the clicked-upon book.

I thought this already worked. Sigh...

[Jonatan Nyberg (bugreporter41)]

Maybe it already did, I just assumed that it did not...

[Jonatan Nyberg (bugreporter41)]

Is it possible to always have Tags in the Quickview shown as default?

[Jonatan Nyberg (bugreporter41)]

Can you also make it possible to change a value of a field in the Quickview by clicking in an already selected field, the same way you can do in the Library view?

[Charles Haley (cbhaley)]

"Maybe it already did, I just assumed that it did not..."
=== No, it didn't work reliably. I submitted code to fix it.

"Is it possible to always have Tags in the Quickview shown as default?"
=== No, but it takes only one double click to switch to tags. Once the selected
=== field is tags, or anything else, it won't change until you change it.

"Can you also make it possible to change a value of a field in the Quickview by
 clicking in an already selected field, the same way you can do in the Library view?"
=== No. That would open the door to multiple writers, which calibre does not support.
=== It is also very complicated. Note that shift-double-click opens edit metadata,
=== giving you a form of edit from QV.