Komga: [Feature Request] Open series or book details view in new tab on middle click

[muchtea]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I can't middle click anywhere on a series card or book card to open the series detail view or the book detail view in a new tab. I used to use this to open several series and books that I wanted to read in new tabs while I was still browsing through my collection.

This used to work many version back, before the the overlay with the different and very useful options (like selection, edit series/book metadata, etc) was added to the cards.
I can middle click on the read-button on a book to open that book in the webreader in a new tab, so that works.

This works the same in Firefox and Chrome.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like to be able to middle click on a book or series card to open the book details or series details page in a new tab. I think the middle-clickability (Is that a word?) can simply be added to the cards or the overlay without impacting the other features in any way.

Describe alternatives you've considered or other apps that can do what you want

Currently middle clicking "Home", "Libraries" and whatever libraries I have added in Komga in the sidebar can open those views in a new tab, which works somewhat for my use case. It is however not as fast to use as middle clicking the series and books directly and it feels like a clunky solution with more clicks involved than necessary.

Additional context

Middle clicking anywhere on the marked card should open the series detail view, currently it's doing nothing.

Middle clicking on the red button on the marked card opens the book in the webreader in new tab, but middle clicking anywhere else on the card does nothing, but should open the book details view in a new tab.

[gotson]

I checked the code, this was done to handle selection and all the buttons on the overlay, so the card doesn't have a to property anymore, and triggers the Vue Router in the click event instead. That's why the card doesn't show up as a link when you hover it, and also why the browser CTRL/SHIFT or middle clicks are not handled properly.

I tried changing it back, it works but also generate a flicker on the thumbnail back to the default image (Komga logo) whenever you start selecting items, because a reload of the Vue component is triggered i suppose. This was very ugly and i don't want to go down that route.

What i did is change the title of the card to a link, which will be properly handled by the browser:

[gotson]

:tada: This issue has been resolved in version 0.44.0 :tada:

The release is available on:

• v0.44.0
• GitHub release

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