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Feature: Implement hold to preview feature with QuickLook
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- C#
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Description
### Description
QuickLook recently announced a new feature wherein if you hold the `spacebar` key while a file is selected, it will create a temporary popup showing details (a "quicklook"), and as you leave the `spacebar`, the popup automatically closes.
When doing this in Files, it instead has a very buggy behaviour where it open/close the quicklook window very quickly instead of keeping the quicklook window open.
### Steps To Reproduce
1. Select a file in the Files app.
2. Hold down the `spacebar` key.
### Expected behavior
It should follow how the feature works in File Explorer, i.e. it will create a temporary popup which closes when the `spacebar` is released.
### Files Version
Version: 2.0.30.0 OS
### Windows Version
Version: 10.0.22000.282
### Relevant Assets
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Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reproducing the spacebar behavior in the Files app and trace the QuickLook entry point responsible for opening and closing the popup. Done means holding Space keeps one temporary preview open for the selected file and releasing it closes it, without rapid open/close cycling.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100