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Changelog PhotoQt - Copyright (C) 2011-2023, Lukas Spies (Lukas@photoqt.org), License: GPLv2 (or later)
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Release 3.3 - 2023-06-15
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- add: all new shortcuts engine
- add: floating element to show location of current image on map
- add: map explorer to show all images in current folder with location data on interactive map
- add: reset button to restore initial stage of main image
- add: setting to switch to moving the image by mouse wheel instead of using it for shortcuts
- add: shortcut actions to move image left/right/up/down
- add: shortcut actions to got to edges of current image
- add: setting to adjust autohide of mouse cursor
- add: allow wheel left/right movement as mouse gestures for shortcut
- add: allow selection of OpenGL backend in settings
- add: option to load PDF documents with QtPDF instead of poppler
- add: animate arrows and add small click animation on startup
- improve: unify look and feel of various elements throughout application
- improve: startup default to mixed setup (integrated and popped out) as default option
- improve: support any image format as icon for context menu entry
- improve: listening to global mouse movements, fixes overloading event system
- improve: don't show context menu entry to add location to favorites without pugixml available
- improve: Escape key in file dialog with files selected only removes selection
- improve: installing pychromecast with cmake is now opt-in option
- improve: crash prevention when scanning for chromecast devices with pychromecast
- fix: finding/linking against (optional) mpv source files
- fix: proper url encoding for favorite locations
- fix: compilation with Exiv 0.28.0
- Windows: fix fullscreen application window
Release 3.2 - 2023-05-11
----------------------------
- add: advanced sorting by dates stored in exif meta data
- add: more options for highlighting thumbnails in thumbnail bar
- add: option to disable thumbnail tooltips
- add: file dialog: looping thumbnails of images inside subfolders
- add: file dialog: select files and folders, add file operations using global clipboard (incl. shortcuts)
- add: file dialog: thumbnails are by default shown scaled and cropped to fit
- add: file dialog: typing a string finds next matching file
- improve: more aggressive freeing of memory when resetting PhotoQt
- improve: validation check also checks directories
- improve: detect mouse leaving application window and hide elements (main menu, meta data, etc.)
- improve: reliability of loading and displaying image resolution
- improve: trash handling on Linux following freedesktop.org standard
- improve: enable MPV support by default, prefer MPV over QtMultimedia by default
- improve: Exiv2: managing BMFF support
- improve: file dialog: folder follows main image folder when image opened from command line
- improve: file dialog: do not select first entry by default after new folder has been loaded
- improve: file dialog: elide long filenames in the middle
- improve: file dialog: when mouse cursor leaves fileview reset current index
- improve: find and link to 'Concurrent' module
- improve: Windows: window handling when window decoration disabled keeps window accessible
- fix: handling of Escape key
- fix: execution of external shortcuts
- fix: caching thumbnails of images inside archives
- fix: correctly removing old animated images from model (freeing up memory)
- fix: double click on image no longer triggers background action
- fix: window manager titles in wallpaper element were unclickable
- fix: Windows: disable Trash feature when using Qt < 5.15
- fix: Windows: deleting/moving animated images avoiding file locking issues
Release 3.1 - 2023-03-07
----------------------------
- add: 'scale and crop' preview images in file dialog
- add: 'scale and crop' thumbnails to fill thumbnail square
- add: option to blur elements in background
- add: option to reset session when hiding to system tray
- add: option to always load images at actual scale (incl. shortcut to toggle setting)
- add: option to automatically hide status info and/or window buttons if not needed
- add: enable BMFF meta format in Exiv2 if available and enabled
- improve: handling of mouse wheel
- improve: uniform context menus
- improve: managing external shortcuts
- improve: managing custom context menu entries
- improve: file count in file dialog when folder icon is very light
- improve: make splitview handle in file dialog stand out more
- improve: breadcrumbs dropdown folder list
- improve: file dialog layout when window is small
- improve: specify better default Windows font
- fix: sorting of files/folders in file dialog
- fix: visual glitches in file dialog
- fix: specifying font sizes throughout interface
Release 3.0 - 2023-01-30
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- add: shortcut: load random image in folder
- add: filedialog: forward/backward mouse button navigates through history
- add: filedialog: access settings manager
- improve: file dialog: use native path separators
- improve: file dialog: improve subfolder listing
- improve: file dialog: breadcrumbs handling
- improve: file dialog: up/down arrows in icon view moves rows up/down
- improve: right click and context menus
- improve: custom menu entries (icons, path, etc.)
- improve: histogram: support for images other than 32bit
- improve: face tagger: use click-and-draw instead of click-then-draw to mark new faces
- improve: face tagger: preserves other meta data
- improve: performance and resilience for RAW images
- improve: structure and rendering of SVG icons
- fix usage of file URI scheme
- many more bug fixes and improvements
Release 2.9.1 - 2022-09-05
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- fix: language files missing
- fix: network path handling on Windows
Release 2.9 - 2022-09-01
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- add/improve: new status information labels
- improve: always attempt loading of Exiv2 data
- improve: option to move meta data back behind screen edge
- improve: replace PNGs icons by SVGs for better scaling
- improve: new filetype and backup icons
- improve: small interface updates
- improve: switch from deprecated appdata to metainfo
- new shortcuts: __fullscreenToggle, __fitInWindow
- fix: sorting of files in file and folder model
- fix: selection of certain localizations
- fix: calculation of size of pixmap cache
- fix: preserve network paths on Windows
- fix: loading favorited network location on Windows
- fix: proper default filename for exporting settings on Windows
- fix: visibility of slideshow controls
- other smaller bug fixes and improvements
Release 2.8 - 2022-07-31
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- file dialog: preview image can be blurred and/or its colors muted
- file dialog: preview image can be loadedin low (fast) and high (slower) resolution
- file dialog: option to hide tooltip with file details
- file dialog: reworked context menu of fileview
- file dialog: tooltip with file details
- slideshow: fix next/prev buttons during slideshow when slideshow paused
- slideshow: controls turned into floating buttons at bottom center
- shortcuts: support for double clicks
- navigation: add navigation buttons to window buttons
- navigation: add zoom to/from setting
- navigation: add min/max zoom range
- navigation: option to enable/disable window decoration by clicking outside visible image
- main menu: restyled and regrouped, complementary to context menu
- context menu: restyled and regrouped, complementary to main menu
- metadata: turn into floating element, not hiding behind edge anymore
- file formats: support for Adove Illustrator (AI) file format
- startup: validate values of some settings, ensuring they fall within a valid min/max range
- interface: pause animated image when element opened on top
- interface: raise window properly when needed
- interface: startup background text message font size follows window size
- interface: option to automatically pop out elements if window is too small
- interface: option to set different overlay color in fullscreen
- Windows: open in default folder
- Windows: loading of images located on network drives
- Windows: trash support (Qt >= 5.15)
- Windows: support setting as wallpaper
- Windows: explicitely use OpenGLES
- general UI updates and color adjustments
Release 2.7 - 2022-06-10
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- add: support for libvips image library
- add: support for libmpv video library
- add: advanced sorting by luminosity
- add: obtain configuration visually (About) and through command line (--show-info)
- improve: reworked main menu with collapsible sections
- improve: better performance of obtaining image size info
- fix: mimetypes where never checked
- fix: hiding of viewer mode button when shortcut used
- various improvements and fixes under the hood
Release 2.6 - 2022-04-07
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- add new image formats: ani, dfont, g4, heic/heif, otf, pfa/pfb, pgx, qoi, sixel
- add: new transitions: explosion, implosion, rotation, random
- add: advanced sorting (including shortcuts) by: resolution, dominant color, average color
- add: more filter options: file name/extension, resolution, file size
- add: print support
- add: option to always show 'closing x'
- improve: general performance improvements
- remove no longer supported image formats: cgm, fig, fpx, flif, gv, sid
- fix: update with GraphicsMagick caused crash
- fix: fully hide labels if none are set to be shown
Release 2.5 - 2022-01-05
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- add: chromecast support (using pychromecast)
- add: new startup checks
- add: new dialog informing user of new install/update
- add: convert settings, shortcuts, and contextmenu from file based to database based
- add: command line option to check and attempt to fix configuration
- add: command line option to reset settings/shortcuts to defaults
- add: dialog to show debug/log messages
- add: second desktop file for standalone mode
- improve: better handling of threading for loading images
- improve: scrolling by mouse no longer flicks view resulting in better handling
- improve: handling of imageformats
- improve: use image providers for setting background image
- improve: reorder mainmenu entries
- improve: copying of image to clipboard
- improve: default startup message, don't show file dialog automatically
- improve: context menu now standalone window and thus not confined to PhotoQt window
- improve: graceful fail when ffmpegthumbnailer not available for video files
- improve: filename inside archives shown on labels in mainview
- improve: enable build with Exiv 0.25
- improve: 'Escape' by default calls __open
- fix/improve: export/import of old and new backup files
- fix: settingsmanager, handling of modal windows
- fix: picking color did not handle the absence of transparency well
- fix: external shortcuts close PhotoQt when 'close' option set
- fix: zoom-to-position failed in multi-monitor setup when last-left monitor is not used
- fix: executing external app by shortcut failed handling placeholders
- fix: slideshow with many images in many subfolders
- fix: escape html tags in filenames shown on tooltips/labels
Release 2.4 - 2021-10-22
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- add: zoom/pinch to position
- add: click on left/right half of empty area around image can load prev/next image
- add: option to exclude directories from caching/preloading
- add: custom filetype icons
- improve: switch default shortcuts for __copy and __clipboard
- improve: script to generate data (filetype icons, windows installer script, etc.)
- fix: loading of metadata
- fix: replacing placeholders in external shortcuts
- fix: handling of --thumbs/--no-thumbs at startup
- fix: reacting to changes to current folder/image
- fix: change wheel up/down to proper directions
- windows: make videos playback work on Windows
- windows: add to software section in settings
- windows: fix loading userplaces
- windows: new installer
Release 2.3 - 2021-06-14
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- add: context menu (subset of mainmenu options), assign right button to it (if not already in use)
- add: new shortcuts manager
- add: command line option to enable/disable system tray
- add: new internal shortcuts: __viewerMode, __showThumbnails, __showMainMenu,
__showMetaData, __quickNavigation, __showFaceTags, __keepMetaData, __contextMenu
- add: restore default configuration, accessible via 'advanced' button in settings manager
- add: support of JPEG XL format (if qt plugin installed)
- improve: calling PhotoQt without command line arguments when hidden assumes '--show'
- improve: use arrows to indicate direction in mouse gestures
- improve: closing 'x' hidden unless fullscreen or window decoration disabled
- improve: new format for saving shortcuts
- improve: handling of command line options
- improve: keeping track of mouse position
- fix: load translations for command line help message
- fix: artifacts in rendered text for scale<1
- fix: loading rar archives with unrar with non-Latin characters in filenames
- fix: wrong datatype used for PixmapCache property (was bool but should be int)
- fix: mirror property of scaled down versions follows main image
Release 2.2 - 2021-06-07
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- add: viewer mode for documents/archives, activated through button near top left corner of screen
- add: quick navigation buttons (added with touchscreens in mind)
- add: show filename in window title
- add: show rotation angle in quick info labels
- add: new button to enter/exit fullscreen mode near top right corner of screen
- add: show 'unsupported' feedback when trying to tag faces in unsupported file type
- add: show 'nothing found' message when filter returns nothing
- add: new PQButton element
- add/improve: various touch ups and improvements in file dialog, new 'go up a level' button
- add/improve: Windows build shows 'unsupported' message instead of doing nothing
- improve: reworked file/folder model, faster and more consistent than before
- improve: window decoration always visible by default
- improve: checkbox uses tickmark instead of 'x' for showing checked state
- improve: limit number of subfolder in slideshows (if enabled) to 100 to avoid getting stuck
- improve: Windows build no longer depends on QtWinExtras
- fix: handling of command line options
- fix: some caching locations pointed to wrong directory
- fix: handling of single quotation marks in filenames
- fix: Windows build properly handles drive letters
- fix: Windows build properly cleans path
- various smaller bug fixes and improvements all over the place
Release 2.1.1 - 2021-02-06
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- fix: revert default from ImageMagick back to GraphicsMagick (as it was before 2.1)
- fix: sort images in folder when path passed on to PhotoQt via command line
- fix: under certain circumstances the directory itself would be added as final 'image'
- fix: first entry in history of file dialog was always set to home directory
- fix: crypt key (used e.g. for handling Imgur authentication) now based off hostname
- fix: back button for history in file dialog barely clickable
Release 2.1 - 2021-01-30
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- improve: image format handling (sqlite based)
- improve: loading of image files
- improve: startup speed when PhotoQt has not been either updated or freshly installed
- improve: handling of popout states
- improve: shortcut handling when popout window activated
- improve: make it easier to hit 'close' button top right of main interface without triggering menu
- improve: files in a folder are filtered more efficiently
- improve: detection of previously chosen languages
- improve: reorganizing of handling methods
- add: welcome screen
- add: ImageMagick support (choice between GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick possible)
- add: small buttons to quickly toggle popout status of elements
- add: proper window titles for popout windows
- add: slideshow can include images in subfolders
- add: element to convert images into different format
- fix: memory leak when loading images with Qt
- fix: caching images
- fix: sometimes thumbnail would be loaded instead of full image
- fix: image are loaded asynchronously, without blocking main interface
Release 2.0 - 2020-12-16
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- Complete re-write, minimum Qt version now 5.9
- add: more image transitions
- add: pop out elements
- add: hide cursor when not moved
- add: video support
- add: support for AVIF file format
- add: sort images by timestamp stored in exif meta data
- add: better threading of thumbnail creation
- improve: rewritten image engine
- improve: raw thumbnails are loaded from metadata (where available)
- improve: new element to open files
- improve: new settings manager with cleaner interface
- improve: new 'loading' indicator
- improve: fewer/no workarounds necessary due to re-write
Release 1.7.1 - 2018-06-03
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- Fix: Animated images would not load
- Fix: The more images in a directory the slower PhotoQt would load first image
- Fix: Deleting an image would lead to infinite 'loading' indicator
- Fix: List of releases in appdata file was in reverse order
- Add: Show 'busy' cursor while loading a Loader item
Release 1.7 - 2018-05-15
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- Add: proper support for formats supported by KDE image plugins
- Add: FreeImage image library
- Add: DevIL image library
- Add: Poppler (for: PDF (inline or document viewer mode))
- Add: libarchive (for: comic book archives, ZIP, RAR, 7ZIP, TAR)
- Add: unrar (Unix-only) (for: better RAR support)
- Add: Detect images also by MIME type and not only by file ending
- Add: Detect, display and manage people tags (stored in XMP metadata)
- Add: Current Zoom level to quick info label
- Add: Setting to adjust step size of zoom
- Add: Basic Window Management (using quick info labels)
- Improve: GraphicsMagick speed
- Improve: Usability of PhotoQt on small screens
- Improve: More efficient and compact fileformats handling
- Fix: Trash for files on removable drive
- Fix: Masking image display shown when needed
- Fix: many small bugs
- Improve: overall speed and responsiveness
Release 1.6 - 2018-02-20
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- Re-structuring of code, taking better advantage of QML property bindings
- Hiding most elements behind Loader items for faster start-up
- Add: proper touchscreen support
- Add: Uploading of images to imgur.com
- Add: Copy images to clipboard
- Add: Ability to freely move main image
- Add: Split 'ThumbnailKeepVisible' setting into 1) always visible, 2) visible when image not zoomed
- Add: Export/Import configuration and shortcuts
- Add: Handle case of directory passed on command line (instead of image)
- Add: Transparency marker option
- Add: one shortcut for multiple functions
- Change: Default shortcuts set (e.g., default shortcut for settings managernow 'p')
- Redo: 'Open File' element, more versatile and reliable
- Add/Change: Open File now has two hover preview modes: quick (uses thumbnail) or full
- Add/Change: Left pane of Open File element can be hidden (hides if nothing is there or window is resized rather small)
- Redo: New 'loading image' indicator
- Fix: rotating very wide images properly fits them into the window
- Fix: so many bugs along with re-structuring they cannot be counted
- Fix: more bugs
- Fix: and more bugs
- Fix: and more bugs
Release 1.5.1 - 2017-01-17
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- Replace: Custom histogram drawing implementation (removal of QtCharts dependency)
- Remove: QtQuick.Window and QtQuick.Dialogs dependencies
Release 1.5 - 2017-01-11
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- Add: new shortcuts handling, including mouse/touch gestures
- Add: histogram (colour and greyscale)
- Add: Watch images/directory for changes and update if one is detected
- Add: option to keep zoom/rotation/mirror when switching images
- Add: filename and image position to metadata element
- Add: exit button to mainmenu element
- Add: re-open last used image on startup
- Fix: starting new version of photoqt with image passed on remembers and opens image after welcome message
- Fix: prevent possible exiv2 crash
- Fix: quickinfo labels move to the right when metadata is set to non-floating
- Fix: image scaling bug when window size is small
- Fix/improve: display properly scaled down version when not zoomed -> better display quality
- Fix/improve: image engine
- Removed/Replaced: option to remember zoom/rotation/mirror on a per image basis
- Remake: new thumbnailbar, letting qml handle more of it, better performance but fewer options
- Fix: many bugs, small and large...
Release 1.4.1.1 - 2016-09-11
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- Important updates to appdata.xml file for inclusion in software center
Release 1.4.1 - 2016-06-01
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- Fix: External Shortcuts aren't working
- Fix: Detecting a key combination for a shortcut didn't work when a language other than English was set
- Fix: Disabling of thumbnails wasn't preserved across sessions
- Fix: Not possible to change setting for Extras filetypes (xcf and psd/psb)
- Fix: Deleting images that had non-Latin characters in their filepath/filename didn't work
- Fix: Pressing the 'Enter' key in a CustomLineEdit went to a second line
- Fix: Renaming a file didn't reload the directory or hide the 'Rename' element
- Fix: Add 'missing' photoqt.appdata.xml file to source tree
- Fix: Impossible to use '+' (normal and keypad) for shortcuts
- Fix: Resizing PhotoQt in window mode didn't adjust the width/height of the image container properly
- Fix: Triggering 'floatable' mode of MetaData element didn't adjust width/height of image container
- Fix: RAW: PhotoQt would always load at most a half-sized image instead of the full one
- Fix: Handling of non-Latin characters faulty in certain cases
- Fix: PhotoQt sometimes would load the thumbnails with a higher priority than the main image
- Fix: Database info in settings manager didn't update automatically after cleaning/emptying database
- Fix: When loading a folder, thumbnails sometimes wouldn't start loading automatically
- Fix: RAW fileformats are not enabled by default (when compiled with LibRaw support)
- Add: Shortcut to hard-delete a file directly, by-passing the confirmation element
- Updated some languages
Release 1.4 - 2016-05-17
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- Re-designed main interface
- Re-design settings manager, streamlining interface
- Re-written shortcuts management (I know, it's part of the settings manager mentioned above, but it's a huge improvement)
- Re-written image engine
- Improvement: Custom* elements have been extended for higher customisability
- Improvement: Enable optimisations when compiling
- Improvement: Better startup-checks (seperate namespace and files)
- Add: Improved key navigation for elements
- Add: Support for most RAW image formats (using Libraw)
- Add: Custom element for opening files
- Add: Additional metadata information
- Add: Width of mainmenu and metadata element can be adjusted by click-and-drag
- Add: Autotransform is used (for Qt >= 5.5) if enabled for better performance/quality
- Add: Animate rotation/zooming
- Add: Tooltips all over the place
- Add: Shortcut notifier informing user of what shortcut navigation is possible
- Add: Blur of background image (NOT desktop background) when element is open
- Add: 'Loading' gif when image takes more than 500ms to load
- Add: Experimental support for touchscreens
- Add: Custom cache of displayed images, fully adjustable
- Change: Turn metadata element into full-height bar on left edge
- Change: Faulty/Unexpected metadata cannot cause a crash anymore (try/catch)
- Change: Metadata non-floatable, i.e., permanently shown, resizes main image element
- Change: Combine mainmenu and context-menu into full-height on right edge (removing Quicksettings)
- Change: Use Qt's QCommandLineParse class for simple handling of command line (and common look with other Qt apps)
- Change: Use proper XDG folders for configuration/data (auto migration at first startup)
- Change of behaviour: Closing PhotoQt using window manager now immediately quits PhotoQt (and not first 'only' closes any possibly opened element)
- Fix: Spaces in filenames are handled properly now when passing to external app
- Fix (for Mac): current screen follows mouse pointer
- Fix: many, many bugs
- Windows: Several small fixes specifically for Windows systems
Release 1.3 - 2015-07-27
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- COMPLETE RE-WRITE IN QML
- Fixed numerous bugs along the way
- Added several new features
- Ensured existing features are working as expected
Release 1.2.1 - 2015-06-15
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- Fix: Transitioning half-transparent images caused issues
- Fix: Wheel Sensitivity (detect wheel direction change)
- Fix: Store window geometry in proper folder
- Fix: Set default values to global variables (fixes persistent 'No file loaded' label in metadata widget)
- Fix: Properly quit PhotoQt (issue in some WMs, stale process would remain)
- Fix: Check for which imagereader to use
- Fix: Treat symlinks to images as own image (fixes weird behaviour)
- Add: Option to completely disable tray icon
Release 1.2 - 2015-01-17
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- GraphicsMagick: More thorough testing and fixing
- Intelligent detection of supported fileformats on first start
- Colour filetype tiles of unsupported formats orange (qt formats only)
- Added better SVG support
- Added XCF support (depending on XCFtools)
- Added PSB/PSD support (depending on libqpsd)
- Smart preloading of folder, better support for large directories (15,000+ files)
- Add sorting criteria for files (name, natural name, filesize, date)
- Fix&Improve: Restore support for Trash on Linux
- Re-worked thumbnail handling: faster, more reliable, new "smart thumbnails" mode
- Option to stay centered on active thumbnail
- Dynamically detect supported context menu entries
- Option to switch between close/not close when selecting context menu entry
- Remember zoom levels/rotation per session
- Option to fit smaller images in window
- Improved handling of windowed/fullscreen mode
- Window always stays on top
- Normal/Fancy look for closing 'x' top right
- Automatic language detection on first start-up (system locale)
- Change: Main animation is now 'fade-in' (+Possibility to disable altogether)
- Wheel sensitivity settings
- Opt-in to High-DPI pixmaps (Qt >= 5.4.0)
- Fix: Proper handling of window flags
- Re-ordering of settings (basic and advanced category)
- Re-ordering and extending of quicksettings
- Fix: Composite detection (not possible in Qt5 on Linux)
- Loop and Shuffle option in Slideshow
- Fix: Scaling preserves Exiv metadata
- Many fixes, improvements, and removal of quite a bit of redundant code
Release 1.1.0.1 - 2014-10-13
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- Critical Fix: PhotoQt crashed on 32 Bit systems
Release 1.1 - 2014-10-12
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- PhotoQt now based on Qt5
- Phonon replaced by QMultimedia
- Rotations/Flipping stored per session (nothing is saved permanently in any files)
- Filter images in current directory by filename/extension
- Scaling images (permanent change)
- Faded in widgets code moved to own class (massive code simplification)
- Fade-in now starts at the top of the screen
- Quick Settings (fade-in widget on the right)
- Fake Transparency (background) now supported for any number of screens
- CMake updates translation files on the fly (handy for translators)
- fix: restore from system tray preserves fullscreen
- fix: context menu converted to 'normal' shortcut
- fix: possible to select background image
- fix: saving settings no longer corrupts session wide list of known file formats
- many improvements to custom widget classes (added methods for better styling, etc.)
- several visual mock-ups (see yourself)
- ... and many, many more bugs were fixed, codelines simplified, improvements here and there done - too many to recall all of them...
Release 1.0 - 2013-08-11
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- Photo renamed to PhotoQt
- New logo (made necessary by name change)
- Use of GraphicsMagick (hence support of 80+ file types)
- Possibility at compilation time to disable use of GraphicsMagick, Exiv2, Phonon
- Significantly faster start-up (on average more than 7 times faster)
- Revamped style of most widgets
- Added window mode (with and without window decorations)
- Set-as-Wallpaper function
- Dropdown menu updated and image manipulation functions moved to image context menu
- Smart context menu options
- Improved thumbnail handling and view
- Dynamic thumbnail creation (only create those thumbnails currently visible)
- Posibility to write resolution on thumbnails (in order to use this you have to remove thumbnails of older versions)
- Faster image and directory loading
- Improved fading between images
- Locale detection when no language is set
- Natural sort of images (i.e. image10.jpg comes after image9.jpg)
- Many code improvements 'under the hub' for better, faster and more reliable image handling
- ... and a few more things that I can't think of anymore ...
Release 0.9.1 -2013-01-22
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- FIXED: Open image by clicking on it didn't work
- FIXED: Start in system tray resulted in some annoying behaviour
- FIXED: Rotation according to exif data was done the wrong way round (anti-clockwise instead of clockwise)
- ADDED: verbose mode (start photo with "--v" or "--verbose") -- Caution: produces a lot of output!
Release 0.9 -2013-01-18
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- Completely re-written and re-structured code
- Mostly new and improved Look
- Many more Settings
- Better Image Handling
- Better Thumbnail Implementation
- Better Exif Handling
- Better Shortcut Handling
- Added Slideshow Feature
- Faster Startup
- Removed custom "Open File" dialog for now (needs a lot more work, just not ready yet...) :(
- More command line options (run 'photo --help' for overview)
- Many bugs fixed/avoided
- ... and sooo much more ...
Release 0.8.2 - 2012-12-13
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- New and updated languages
- Small fix for desktop-file to make it possible to select it as default image viewer on some platforms
Release 0.8.1.2 - 2012-11-09
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- FIXED: A click anywhere on the main image area would cause Photo to crash
Release 0.8.1.1 - 2012-11-08
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- Important fix of CMakeLists.txt. It installed some icons in /usr/icons instead of /usr/share/icons
Release 0.8.1 - 2012-11-07
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- FIXED: mouse shortcuts for external commands didn't work
- FIXED: text labels (like filename, etc.) didn't stay hidden in certain circumstances
- IMPROVED: CMakeLists.txt was improved to be better adaptable to different setups
- IMPROVED: detection of currently set translation better generalised
- ADDED: 6 new languages (Arabic, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese)
Release 0.8 - 2012-07-19
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- Allow only one instance of Photo at a time - a new execution of the photo binary re-opens the already running one
- Photo can be controlled through the command line (although the amount of commands possible are still limited
- Photo can make use of the system tray, and can also start minimised to the tray -> instant availability
- Slightly restyled and enhanced dropdown menu
- Photo supports now (still very basic) printing functionality
- A click on a GPS location in the exif widget opens the position on an online map service (e.g. google maps or bing maps)
- New experimental opening dialog - STILL BETA, lacking many functions and reliability - USE AT OWN RISK!
- Many other smaller changes
Release 0.7.1.1 -2012-03-26
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- Added Serbian Translation by Mladen Pejaković
Release 0.7.1 - 2012-03-23
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- Updating Greek translation
- Looping through images (can be turned off)
- Possibility to jump to first/last image in folder (shortcut)
- First implementation of smooth transitions between images (still beta!!)
- Fixed Bug: Hiding Thumbnails works now
- Improved start-up time (window is build up a little faster now)
Release 0.7 - 2012-03-08
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- Rotating/flipping of image as stored in its exif data
- Possibility to set and adjust mouse actions as shortcuts
- Make Thumbnails moveable to top
- Internal Shortcuts made easier accessable
- More than one modifier (Ctrl/Shift/Alt) can now be used for shortcuts
- Flipping of images
- Zoom to actual size
- Improved speed of rotating images
- Scrolling at any point on the thumbnail bar scrolls horizontally
- Fixed Bug: On dual-screen systems, if the other screen had bigger dimensions than current one -> image wouldn't load
- Fixed Bug: Only one shortcut could be added per session, or Photo crashed
- Other smaller changes
Release 0.6.1 - 2012-02-14
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- Added better desktop integration (i.e. desktop file and icons)
- Fixed exiv2 bug, that could cause Photo to crash
- Switched to cmake for building
Release 0.6 - 2012-02-09
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- Support for animated images
- Centered thumbnail view
- Exif information (using exiv2 library)
- Extended/Changed Thumbnail caching
- New About widget
- Logo (Thanks to Archie Arevalo)
- New thumbnail hover effect
- Possibility to hide labels in main display area
- Adjusted and extended settings widget
- many smaller code improvements
Release 0.5 - 2012-01-21
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- Rotating of images
- Improved zooming
- Added file handling (rename,copy,move,delete)
- Optional feature: Click on empty (grey) background will close Photo
- Fixed hover effect for thumbnails
- Fixed hover effect for shortcuts
- Fixed Dual-Screen Monitor Bug
- Other small code changes
Release 0.4 - 2012-01-10
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- Added zooming of images
- Replaced menu button by nicely animated menu
- Different code improvements that might increase the speed of Photo slightly
- Other small code changes
Release 0.3.0.1 - 2011-12-31
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- Added Greek Translation by Dimitrios Glentadakis
Release 0.3 - 2011-12-27
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- Rewritten and Restyled Settings Window
- Improved Shortcut handling
- Faster thumbnail (re-)creation
- Replaced buttons top right by single menu buttons
- Translation into German
- Several small changes and code improvements
Release 0.2 - 2011-12-16
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- Improved Thumbnail View (now more interactive)
- Thumbnail Cache (freedesktop.org compliant)
- Use of QImageReader to increase performance
- Composite made an option in settings
- Thumbnail size can be adjusted
- Implement function to open a new file from inside photo
- many, many small bug fixes and code improvements
Release 0.1 - 2011-12-08
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First initial Release