Move to Canada & Short Preview of v1.1

Published: 8th of September, 2014

I recently moved to St. John's in Newfoundland, Canada. It has been quite an adventure, and a lot of new things to discover. I really love it here! Coming from Ireland, I found the people to be not too different (I can tell, that many have Irish ancestors); very open, friendly and welcoming. And the area round here is absolutely beautiful! Definitely a nice place to go on holidays to ;-)

After a short period of time of working on the code, it got a little quiet again over the last 3-ish weeks while I was settling in my new home. But version 1.1 of PhotoQt is not too far off anymore! I can't give a definite date yet, but I'd expect it to come in about 2-3 weeks. If you followed the changes on GitHub, you'll know that there will be quite a few changes again:

Starting with v1.1, PhotoQt will be based on Qt5
Phonon is being replaced by QMediaPlayer (getting rid of a dependency)
A rotation/flipping of an image is stored temporarily for a session (nothing is saved permanently in any files!) - Issues #19
Images in a current directory can be filtered quickly and easily (currently only by file extension, not (yet) by filename) - Issues #17
Faded in widgets are now provided by their own class (massive simplification of code), and the animation starts at the top of the screen now
Basic image manipulation: resizing and rotating/flipping (still to do)
And many bugs were fixed... if you find any, please let me know (either by email, or via GitHub)!

The above list is not exhaustive, there might be a few more changes coming. But it will be an exciting release, once again! I hope it will be worth the time you all had to wait for it (v1.0 was released in August 2013)...