PhotoQt 4.6 is ready with another round of additions, improvements, and bug fixes. Thank you to all who gave feedback and suggestions!
With this new release the image display engine of PhotoQt has undergone a complete overhaul. This not only means that PhotoQt handles folders and images more elegantly, but also much more efficiently. This is particularly noticeable for large folders with thousands or more images. Such folders and images therein now load almost as fast as images in folders with only a few images. This new engine also comes with support for preloading previous/next images in the background. That way, navigating through a folder ensures that you do not have to wait for an image to fully load anymore, or at least much less often.
PhotoQt was already capable of scaling and converting images. Now it also is capable of cropping them. When activated, it sets the crop rectangle to start out at whatever rectangle is currently visible in the main view. You can then, of course, adjust it as desired.
Have you ever accidentally moved an image into the trash in PhotoQt and wished there were a simple way to undo that? Well, you're in luck, this is now possible. By default, this action is set for Ctrl+Z (if not already in use for another action) and does exactly this, recover a just deleted file from the trash.
There are some actions and features that show a notification popup. This position of this notification can now be customized. On Linux, it is also possible to tell PhotoQt to make use of native notifications instead of the ones integrated into the main interface.
The Ken Burns slideshow effect has been tweaked a little bit more to better show images with relative dimensions that are rather different from the window dimensions. In addition, some small bugs with this slideshow effect have been fixed, including videos playing in an infinite loop and music popping up shortly between two consecutive music files.
Other than the changes listed above there have been several other bug fixes and smaller improvements. Take a look at the Changelog for a more complete list.
If you look at the changelog you might notice that it is much shorter than for the few previous releases. This is, in part, due to some rather big individual changes introduced in this release. But this is also due to the fact that I successfully defended my PhD dissertation this summer!! This fall, I am starting a new job at the INRIA research laboratory in Paris, France.
Get involved
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:
- You can always send me an email: %EMAIL%
- 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