Right now, when you click on a photo, a context box opens up. To close it, you need to click on the picture again.
Maybe it's not very intuitive because it took me a while to understand this, so maybe it'd be good if clicking anywhere else closed the menu, or if there was a dedicated "Close" button.
Indeed this is something to be improved, I could find no documentation on the upstream library (bootstrap) on a setting to create this. So it would have to be the creation of homegrown solution.
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