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Basic image browser #24

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qView would become so much more versatile if the user will be able to select images using thumbnails (cached to RAM) to move or delete files.

Would you kindly consider implementing a basic (taggable) image browser inside qView as it already has powerful and fast RAM-based image pre-loader?

The bookmarks or (better) a directory tree on the left for quick drag-n-drop would make it perfect, but at the very least a basic nomacs-like is very welcome. Here's an example of XnView MP configured this way:
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P.S. Here're some reasoning notes for this request. The only other software that can do it is XnView MP, but while it's lightning fast and highly customizable, it's a bit bloated (it's my weapon of choice at the moment, though I had to do a UI revamp for it). nomacs can do something like that, but it's bloated and clunky in Windows, and I'm not sure if it uses RAM or disk caching. PhotoQt has a thumbnail file browser, but it only has disk caching to %LocalAppData%\cache\thumbnails is really-really clunky. ImageGlass can't cache to RAM and is really slow. Configuring mpv as an image viewer sounded like dream, but it turned out it has many limitations in terms of file types support.

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