Changelog
Release 3.3 - 2023-06-15
- 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
- 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