FTS - Option to override the "Use internal viewer for" behaviour user settings for EPUB, AZW3 and MOBI formats opened up from the FTS dialogue

[cmfy]

When opening up titles from the FTS results dialogue, I'd prefer to have Calibre always use the internal viewer for EPUB, AZW3 and MOBI formats, instead of observing the default system viewer.

So I come to ask if such an option, to override the "Use internal viewer for" user setting for EPUB, AZW3 and MOBI formats opened up from the FTS dialogue, could be implemented for Windows users.

This is Calibre 6.9 - Windows 10

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

There's already a setting for this in Preferences->Behavior I'm afraid I
am not interested in adding another setting just for the FTS dialog.

[cmfy (cmfy)]

Hi Kovid! I have added some more context for this request here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4332803#post4332803, in case you're now inclined to implement something different from the current Calibre behaviour.

Actually this is more related to the Output Format setting, which gets carried over to other use scenarios, but I'm not sure if filing another related bug would be interesting for your workflow.

"I find this issue difficult to explain and I think I've once opened a launchpad ticket about it, in which I wish I'd done a better job at explaining the usability case, but what it means roughly is that if one wants to have PDF as default output for conversions as well as the default double-click format to open a title with multiple formats AND to be able to click-to-open a result on FTS searches in all other formats except PDF (EPUB, AZW3, MOBI), it's not possible."