It has been quite a while since the last release of PhotoQt, almost a year this time. But the next release is just around the corner: PhotoQt v1.4 is undergoing some final debugging and bug fixing over the next two weeks (plus/minus), and then it will be rolled out to the world!
Over this past year I got to dive into the world of High Performance Computing (HPC) as part of my studies on iterative methods. It has been an amazing adventure so far already, and I learned a lot about coding and improving performance! At the end of March, I was able to present my research at a conference in Colorado, USA. This was an amazing opportunity, but it also was the cause for me to again take a step back from developing PhotoQt for some time. Thus there were some rather long periods of hardly any development going on.
Nonetheless, there have been numerous changes, too many to tell them all. I will give a more detailed overview once v1.4 will be released, but here is already a quick list of some of the major changes:
custom 'Open File' element
re-designed interface
re-designed settings
streamlined workflow
re-structured use of hot-corners/context menu to simplify the interface
support for RAW images (using dcraw)
better key navigation support for all elements
blurring of background when element is opened on top
faster start-up by using smarter checks during start
added selective IPTC metadata tags to the already existing Exif metadata tags
options to tweak behaviour of interpolation
adjustable size of pixmap cache
experimental (and very basic) touchscreen support
re-written many parts, including the engine displaying the main image
and so much more...
I'm sure I missed a number of changes/new features in this list. But as I mentioned, I will give a more thorough and detailed overview with the final release.
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