PhotoQt v3.0

Published: 30th of January, 2023

A new release of PhotoQt with a whole bunch of improvements, some additions, and several bug fixes. Shoutout to @hadoukez at GitLab for all their feedback, testing, and support.

There have been a whole bunch of improvements, here are some of the highlights:

Shortcuts: A new shortcut has been added to load a random image in the current folder
File Dialog: The file dialog has received several new improvements, including:
- It is now possible to directly access the settings manager from the file dialog.
- Using the forwards/backwards buttons on a mouse now navigate forwards/backwards through the history.
- When in icon view, up and down arrows move a whole row up/down instead of just to the next/previous entry.
- The bread crumbs have been reworked with better subfolder listings.
- All paths now use native separators ('/' on Linux, '\' on Windows).
Histogram: Proper support for images that are not 32bit has been added. The overall speed to load histograms has also been improved.

In addition to the above additions and improvements, there has been a whole range of smaller changes, including:

improved context/popup/dropdown menus
improved handling for custom menu entries
click-and-drag for face tagger

The list above is not exhaustive, a good bit more has happened. You can find a few more items in the Changelog and all changes since last time in the git history, but best is to try it out yourself.

If you want to keep track of what is going on with PhotoQt, you can now find milestones in the git repository with related issues listed for each milestones. Each issue will list all related commits to track activity and progress.

I love to hear from people using PhotoQt. In order to get in touch with me for feedback/support/etc., there are a few different ways you can do so:

Email: You can always send me an email: (you need to enable javascript to see the email address)
IRC: I often hang out in the IRC channel #photoqt over at Libera.Chat.
GitLab: Feel free to open an issue over in the GitLab repository.

If you want to help PhotoQt, there are a few ways you can get involved:

Join the translation team over on Crowdin. If your language is missing you can simply request it directly on Crowdin or send me an email and I can add it to the project.
Give feedback of what you like/don't like, or what you think is missing from PhotoQt. To give feedback, send me an email or open an issue on GitLab.

If you are considering supporting PhotoQt by donation, please consider donating to the humanitarian relief in Ukraine instead, for example to the Ukrainian Red Cross.

Enjoy PhotoQt,

Lukas