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Originally Posted by DiapDealer

If you're looking at it in Preview, don't you already know what it is?

I'm not trying to be difficult, I just honestly don't understand why opening another tab with the same image you were already looking at in Preview (or Book View) is all that advantageous. If you're looking at it in Preview with the Code View open, you can already see the image name and are easily able to go to it in the Book Browser. From there you can rename it, or open it in an external editor, right? The Book Browser is where all image-related editing (rename, edit externally) is ultimately going to end up, no?

Because those folks aren't. They're looking at it in BV. They're not Preview, which by necessity, has Code View open. If they were looking at it in Preview, they'd be noticing what you're seeing, which is, they'd have the image file name immediately to hand. Because if you see something in Preview that you want to look at, you click in PV, and bang--you're jumped there in CV, and Bob's-yer-uncle, there's the image name. The poster isn't looking at that--he's only looking at what Preview can't do.

Yes, it's a click or two more, arguably, then "just" clicking on an image in BV.

Or tried...

Or if opening the image in a new tab truly is being used merely to get the correct image pre-selected in the Book Browser, then the same functionality exists as a context-menu item when right-clicking on the image src in Code View. So while scrolling in Code View and seeing the image you want to work with in Preview, one merely right-clicks on the image src url in Code view and selects "Open Tab For Image" and .... voila! There's your Tab. There's your image filename highlighted in the Book Browser.

Right, that is another path to get there, just as expeditious, IMHO, as clicking on it in BV.

I don't think we'd be opposed to having an image clicked on in Preview opening the image's tab if it's easily achievable (we've added the ability for clicking links in Preview to open new tabs after all). But if it proves complicated/difficult, I'm not really seeing a lot motivation to work on something that's pretty easily achievable via other (similar) methods.

Well, we only work in CV with the occasional glance at Preview, so it matters not to us. But I genuinely don't think that the discussion in the last few days has been about finding the image or image name. We all responded about different ways to do the same thing. So...if the goal was to get to an easy replacement for it, I think that's been met. But the initial reply about images and BV/CV doesn't seem to be about that at all. To me, it sounded like an argument to retain BV.

I think we need a Pinned topic, saying "Ding Dong Book View is Dead, the View is Dead, the View is Dead..." Not in that joyful sense, of course, and not set to music, but something like it, to forestall this conversation, over and over. Hell, for all I know, there already is a pinned topic about this, and I've simply missed it, but if there isn't, I strongly recommend one. People seem to get mighty angry, upon finding out that it's in its death throes, so...it might save all of us some time and abuse, if the dry facts are already set out. Particularly saving you, Doug, and Kev.

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