March 20th, 2010New Features:
· More efficiency improvements in file loading and tracking which should further speed up loading and display of folder contents.
Bugs Fixed:
· Minor bug fixes.
March 18th, 2010New Features:
· Efficiency improvements in the file-tracking system.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed a bug that would cause thumbnails not to show in a folder after it is moved.
· Other minor bug fixes.
March 17th, 2010New Features:
· gBrowser now automatically scrolls the Sidebar to ensure that newly selected items are visible.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed a bug introduced in beta 23 where files moved or deleted form the Thumbnail Pane wouldn't disappear.
· Fixed a crash that could occur when changing the Sidebar file filter.
· Fixed a bug that cause Sidebar folder/file counts to be incorrect.
· Permanently rotating images no longer results in loss or alteration of filesystem metadata (like the file's label or modification date).
· Other minor bug fixes.
March 16th, 2010New Features:
· Added an option to the Application Preferences to hide gBrowser whenever it is no longer the active application.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed a bug where filename case changes wouldn't show up.
· Fixed a bug where some invisible files would be visible.
· Fixed a bug that would cause strange behavior after a rotating an image.
· Fixed a bug where the Label menu item might display incorrectly.
· Fixed an error that could occur when starting a slideshow when gBrowser was not the active application (ie. from the Services menu).
March 10th, 2010New Features:
· Image Viewer will update if you switch back to a folder with a preexisting selection.
· Folder names are still displayed when other file info is hidden.
· Marks are still displayed when other file info is hidden.
· Simplified hotkeys for Drop Locations: Command-# is now used for move (rather than Option-Command-#). Option-Command-# will now copy files to the Drop Location, and Control-Command-# will make aliases of the files in the Drop Location.
· Altered Drop Locations menu so it now works more sensibly.
· Improved efficiency when removing files from the Sidebar.
· Improved efficiency in the file-tracking subsystem.
Bugs Fixed:
· Selecting a batch rename preset from a menu works properly again.
· Corrected odd behavior when rotating image files in the Thumbnail Pane.
March 8th, 2010New Features:
· By default, the Sidebar can no longer take focus, similar to the simpler and less confusing behavior of Finder's and Mail's sidebars. This means no keyboard navigation, and main menu commands such as "Move to Trash" or "Duplicate" cannot affect selected files, etc. Don't worry, the previous more advanced functionality can be enabled by checking the appropriate box in your Sidebar preferences!
· Improved responsiveness after file move/copy/update.
· Hopefully the Slideshow and Batch Rename services will appear more reliably after this update.
· If a Slideshow service is started with just a single file, the slideshow will start with the full contents of that file's parent folder.
· Added option to Thumbnail Pane preferences to automatically select the first file when loading a folder.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed a bug in minimizing the Sidebar by dragging it closed.
March 6th, 2010New Features:
· Efficiency improvements in the file-tracking subsystem.
· PDFs can now be dropped onto the gBrowser icon.
· Images are removed from the slideshow when moved into a Drop Location.
· Slideshow now displays current slide index next to filename.
· Added "Slideshow" as an OS X service. Now in addition to the "Batch Rename" service, you can start slideshows in gBrowser from the selected files in the Finder via the contextual menu or Services menu (10.6 users might need to enable the Slideshow service in the Keyboard Shortcuts system preferences).
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed a bug in drag-and-drop to the Thumbnail Pane.
· Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when viewing or sorting by image metadata.
March 5th, 2010New Features:
· Improved "new slideshow" menu item behaviors. To decrease confusion, slideshow source is now solely based on Thumbnail Pane contents rather than Thumbnail Pane or Sidebar depending on which had focus.
· Added option in Thumbnail Pane preferences to select the next file when you remove (by moving or deleting) the current selection.
· Added option in application preferences to open browser window to an image's parent folder when opening an image and no browser window is already open.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed a memory leak.
March 4th, 2010New Features:
· Improvements to keyboard navigation in Sidebar and Thumbnail Pane.
· Further efficiency improvements when working with large numbers of files.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed some bugs introduced in beta 17.
March 3rd, 2010New Features:
· Reorganized main menus for better clarity.
· Added key commands for Back/Forward in navigation history.
· Holding option while using the scroll wheel in slideshows will go to previous/next image.
· Holding option while dragging the thumbnail size slider will force thumbnail sizes to the maximum width that fits in the current browser window.
· Added a menu option to scroll the Thumbnail Pane to the first selected item.
· Minor speed and efficiency improvements, especially when working with large numbers (thousands) of files.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed a bug in the Image Viewer that could cause a crash.
· "Go to parent folder" works in the Sidebar again.
· Slideshows can now be started properly when focus is on the Sidebar.
March 1st, 2010Bugs Fixed:
· Next/prev image in Image Viewer works now.
· Image orientation is properly detected again.
February 27th, 2010New Features:
· Grouped some of the thumbnail information (megapixels, dimensions, and portrait/landscape) together under "dimensions". You might have to re-select the "dimensions" display option.
· Added exposure info and hardware info display option for thumbnails.
· Added sort options: Exposure time, f Stop, ISO, Focal Length, and Camera Model.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when using the Image Viewer.
· Fixed some memory leaks.
February 26th, 2010New Features:
· Mouse is now autohidden when Imager Viewer is fullscreen.
· Improved behavior when opening and closing fullscreen Image Viewer while using fullscreen browser.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed a bug where dropping a folder onto the gBrowser app icon wouldn't always properly select the file.
· Fixed a bug where closing the browser window immediately after selecting a bookmark could cause a crash.
· Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when making the browser window fullscreen.
February 25th, 2010New Features:
· Browser window can now be made fullscreen (View > Toggle Fullscreen).
· Improved fullscreen behavior in slideshows and Image Viewer.
· Drop Locations appear in slideshow contextual menu.
· New setting in Sidebar prefs for "Preferred root folder" allows you to choose a preferred folder to use as the root of the sidebar when opening folders by dropping them on the gBrowser icon or option-clicking them in the Thumbnail Pane to open them in a new window.
· The top level of the filesystem now displays your system's name rather than just "Computer."
February 24th, 2010New Features:
· Removed drag delay time in Thumbnail pane.
· Made dragged icons semitransparent so they don't obscure the area you're dragging to.
· Sort-by-label now uses the same criteria the Finder does.
· Improved appearance of marked files in Thumbnail Pane.
· Added option (on by default) to hide Image Viewer when gBrowser is in the background.
· Added option (on by default) to blank other screens when displaying slideshows.
· Added option to immediately expand folders when they are selected in the sidebar.
· Added option to make "New Slideshow in Current Folder" start from the first selected file in the Thumbnail Pane.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed some permissions related issues with copying or moving files.
· Move To menu fixed to appear in read-only folders too.
· Fixed a bug where thumbnails wouldn't load and images wouldn't open if the file's parent folder had been moved or renamed.
· Fixed a bug where a couple slideshow hotkeys weren't working.
· Fixed a potential crash when editing filenames.
· Fixed a crash when viewing multiple PDFs.
February 17th, 2010New Features:
· Preferences key combo changed to the now standard command-, instead of the older command-;.
· Reworked preferences to remove smaller font sizes.
· Added two new options to "Move To" menus: "New Folder" (Moves files into a new folder in the parent directory) and "Other Location..." (lets you choose any other folder).
Bugs Fixed:
· "Change Font" button in the Sidebar prefs works again.
· Rotate hotkeys work properly now.
· Fixed a possible crash when closing the slideshow.
· Resolved an issue where images opened in gBrowser (in image windows, slideshow, or Image Viewer) couldn't be deleted or saved over (eg. by Photoshop or while moving files to another volume).
February 14th, 2010New Features:
· Movies with custom icons will show the custom icon rather than quicklook preview.
· The browser window now keeps its status as the main window if you have the image viewer open on launch.
· Slideshow controls now remember their position.
· Show/hide button pane state is now remembered.
· Image windows remember their position.
· The sidebar no longer shows the expansion arrow next to folders that are empty (or whose contents are invisible due to the sidebar filter setting).
· New hotkey to toggle focus between the Sidebar and Thumbnails: control-tab.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed a bug that could cause crashes or glitches when loading contents of folders with very large numbers of files.
· Fixed a bug where “1001″ was shown on marked items, and marked items couldn’t be selected.
· Removed old “Add to Toolbar” references in menus.
· Non-fullscreen image viewer will now auto-open on the correct screen.
· Next/Prev image in folder menu options are validated properly.
· Fixed a couple other crash-causing bugs.
December 11th, 2009Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed a bug that could crash gBrowser when loading folder contents.
· Fixed a problem that would log unnecessary messages to Console.
· Fixed an issue with hot keys in the Edit menu.
December 4th, 2009New Features:
· Improved hotkeys preferences, allowing for modifier keys (command, option, shift, and control) in addition to a key, and added options to change certain menu hotkeys. Some of the default key combos have been changed.
· Added ability to tile small images, either automatically or by selecting an option in the View menu (see Viewing Images in your Collection Preferences).
· Image windows can be closed with the escape key.
· Simplified and consolidated preferences.
· Reorganized main menu to reduce submenus.
· Added appearance presets (white, gray, dark grey, etc.) to thumbnail pane preferences.
· Added a button to the Thumbnail Pane to quickly hide/show file information along with thumbnails. Also improved thumbnail appearance when no file information is displayed.
Bugs Fixed:
· Removed old references to the toolbar in the main menu.
· Fixed a couple crash-causing bugs.
November 29th, 2009New Features:
· Small efficiency improvement in file-tracking system.
· Added options to sort by orientation (portrait/landscape) and to display this information in the Thumbnail Pane.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed some more crash-causing bugs.
· Fixed an issue that could cause Sidebar bookmarks to stop working.
· Fixed a display issue with certain images.
November 27th, 2009Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when a folder being browsed is ejected or deleted.
· A few other small fixes.
Known bugs:
· Newly created aliases don’t always show up properly (thought we’d fixed this!).
November 23rd, 2009New Features:
· Made some significant changes/improvements to gBrowser’s file-tracking system. Please let us know if you discover any issues with gBrowser not updating properly when files are moved/renamed/etc.
· Improved response to disks being mounted/ejected/renamed also.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed some crashing bugs in refreshing the top level of the sidebar.
· Fixed some sorting issues in batch renamer.
· Some miscellaneous other crash fixes (thanks for submitting crash reports!).
November 14th, 2009New Features:
· Due to the huge number of feature enhancements in the past few months, we’ve decided it would be more appropriate to change the version to 2.0. Fear not, your 1.x registration is still good for version 2.0!
· Moved to Apple’s QuickLook to create and store thumbnails. This means you’ll be getting thumbnails for many more file types – anything QuickLook supports on your machine, including movies and text files. This also means we’re not storing thumbnails in the resource fork anymore. Thumbnails may load slower for a while as QuickLook creates and caches them, but should load more quickly after that. Since this is a fairly major alteration, please send us feedback after trying it out for a while, we’d like to know if you feel it is better or worse than the old system.
· Improved appearance and functionality of main window.
· Added search/filter box for Thumbnail pane.
· Thumbnail size slider now goes up to 1024.
· A few little improvements to the batch rename window.
· Added Batch Rename as a Service – find it in the Services menu in the Finder on Leopard, or in both the Services menu and contextual menus in the Finder on Snow Leopard (Snow Leopard users will have to activate the Batch Rename service in the Keyboard section of System Preferences).
· Improved appearance of drag & drop thumbnails in the Thumbnail Pane.
· New About window.
· Improved window sizing behavior when opening PDFs.
· Improved sizing behavior and appearance when viewing images, movies, or HTML documents directly in the Thumbnail Pane by selecting them in the Sidebar.
· Removed Toolbar and replaced it with a button bar in the Thumbnail Pane. Sidebar shortcuts that used to appear in the Toolbar now appear in the new Bookmarks popup menu underneath the Sidebar.
· Improved functionality of the Sidebar’s back/forward navigation buttons.
· Added “Quick Open With” button in new button bar. This button will show the icon of the first application in your Drop Locations that’s able to edit the selected file. Hold the option key to bypass your Drop Locations and open the file in the standard application (this is useful if you have Photoshop in your Drop Locations, as Photoshop thinks it can open everything).
· Added IPTC and EXIF info viewing – press the Info button the left side of the button bar (or Command-I). We actually attempted to add editing, but it turns out Apple’s APIs for this are remarkably inconsistant and buggy, randomly not saving certain tags, stripping out a few specific tags, writing tags so they were unreadable in other programs, etc. We’ll have to pursue a different solution and it may be a while before editing is in place.
Bugs Fixed:
· Files no longer disappear from view if thumbnail size is bigger than the thumbnail pane.
· Fixed some misc. crashers.
November 2nd, 2009New Features:
· Added much-requested batch rename feature. You will find the option under the new “Tasks” menu or in the thumbnail pane context menu. Either select your files/folders in the thumbnail pane and open the rename window from there, or you can add (and remove) files directly from the rename window itself. A small selection of presets are available out of the box, but you can make your own to suit your needs!
· Minor improvements to Drop Locations window.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed a bug that would cause a crash if the manual thumbnail creator didn’t find any image files.
· Fixed bugs in sorting by creation date.
· Fixed bugs in “open in app” preferences.
· Improvements to thumbnail creation code to avoid unnecessary logging.
· Fixed a bug that would constantly reload larger thumbnails when smaller thumbnails hadn’t yet been created.
· Fixed a few other crashers (thanks to those who submitted crash logs with the new crash reporter! But remember, it helps if you write a sentence or two explaining what you were doing when the crash occured!).
October 25th, 2009· Added a crash reporter. You will now have the option to upload crash reports straight to us, which should really help us squash bugs.
· A few more improvements to the preferences windows.
October 22nd, 2009New Features:
· Simplified preferences.
· Improved PDF viewing further.
· Improved Drop Locations window.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed a problem opening the Image Viewer window.
· Fixed some bugs in the preferences windows.
October 22nd, 2009New Features:
· Added option to permanently rotate images (losslessly, just sets the EXIF orientation tag) from thumbnail pane, either via contextual menu, File menu, or toolbar button.
· Better validation of toolbar items.
· Improved PDF viewing (not perfect yet).
· Added “Drop Locations” window, accessible under the “Window” menu. This floating window lists your “Move to” folders and “Open with” applications, and lets you quickly and easily drop your files into/onto them! You can even add new folders/apps and change their order right there in the Drop Locations window.
Bugs Fixed:
· Significant changes to menu code, resolving a few crash issues and improving behavior. Let us know if anything isn’t working.
· Other small fixes here and there.
October 19th, 2009Bugs Fixed:
· Dropping a folder on the gBrowser icon once again opens a new gBrowser window to browse the contents of that folder.
· A couple of other little fixes.
October 19th, 2009New Features:
· The first ten “move to” items now each recieve a keyboard shortcut (command-option-#) rather than just the first one.
· Minor efficiency improvement when displaying multiple types of image info in the thumbnail pane.
Bugs Fixed:
· “Move to” menu item works again.
· Files no longer sometimes stop] displaying their icons when setting a label.
· Minor modifications to how icons and thumbnails are loaded.
· Thumbnail pane font settings are remembered now.
· Miscellaneous other little fixes and improvments.
October 15th, 2009New Features:
· Improved Quick Tips window.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed a bug that caused images to load incorrectly if they weren’t 72 DPI.
· Fixed a bug where an image edited in Photoshop might not update its thumbnail immediately.
October 6th, 2009New Features:
· Added drag-to-select to thumbnail pane.
· Added warning when changing filename extensions.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed a bug that made the slideshow unable to loop around in reverse.
· Fixed a bug where image windows for images with EXIF orientation tags wouldn’t properly show the low-quality view first.
· Misc other little fixes and changes.
October 5th, 2009New Features:
· Switched from kernel queues to FSEvents for file tracking; should improve efficiency a bit.
· Further graphics refinements & standardization.
· Added alias badge to aliases.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed a bug in the sidebar’s filename editor.
· Misc other little fixes and changes.
October 2nd, 2009New Features:
· Full support for file labels! Set labels, sort by labels, etc.
· Further optimizations to thumbnail pane drawing code should result in a modest speed increase while scrolling or changing thumbnail size.
· Improved error handling for file operations.
Bugs Fixed:
· gBrowser won’t jump to filenames if you use a modifier key combo that doesn’t exist (ie. Command-S no longer incorrectly jumps you to files beginning with S).
· Fixed some minor graphical issues in the thumbnail pane.
· Fixed a bug where files with errors in a file operation (move, rename, etc.) might not get skipped when the user chose to skip them.
Known bugs:
· Newly-created aliases are not always properly recognized as aliases.
September 29th, 2009New Features:
· Threaded file copies with progress window – finally! Please let me know if you discover any issues with moving or copying your files.
· Reorganized the preferences a bit, and rewrote a lot of the underlying code.
· All preferences are now saved automatically, no need to save on quitting all the time.
· “New window” now makes a clone of your current Collection window if you have a Collection open (along with some other general improvements in window/Collection behavior).
· Thumbnail pane now remembers your selections and scroll position for each folder if you leave a folder and then come back to it (until you quit the application).
· In Snow Leopard, we now use the same method of calculating file size as the operating system does.
· Reorganized menus a little.
· The “show file/folder count” option for the sidebar now uses your thumbnail pane file filter settings to calculate the file count.
· Stripped out lots of old and unused code and resources, and switched to more modern APIs in many places.
· Improved thumbnail pane appearance and added some small optimizations to the drawing code.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed an issue that would cause errors if you were browsing the filesystem root while viewing invisible files.
· Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when opening a corrupt image.
· Fixed a bug where image dimensions might not display properly.
September 16th, 2009New Features:
· Improved efficiency and responsiveness in the thumbnail view.
· Miscellaneous code improvements.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed a bug where an image would be assumed corrupt if it didn’t have a thumbnail.
September 10th, 2009New Features:
· Max thumbnail size is now 1024px.
· Improved drawing of shadows.
· Miscellaneous other little improvements.
· Improvements to zooming/panning in slideshow mode (scrollwheel now zooms).
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed a crash when changing certain preferences.
· Fixed a few other crash-causing bugs.
· Many miscellaneous little code changes.
September 7th, 2009New Features:
· Completely overhauled file operations code (moving, copying, etc.). Behavior should be a little more Finder-like (including “apply to all” checkbox!) but still no progress bars. This overhaul means some new bugs might have slipped in, so please contact us if you notice anything unusual.
· “Open with” menu automatically displays recommended apps. You can also still choose your default/preferred set of apps to appear at the top of the menu.
· Improvements in dragging/dropping files to the toolbar.
· Clicking an item in the sidebar to select it doesn’t bring up the filename editor anymore. An item must now already be selected for a click to bring up the editor (like in the Finder).
Bugs Fixed:
· Random slideshow sorting now works properly with folder grouping.
· Fixed a crash when viewing the root level of the filesystem in Snow Leopard.
· Fixed a crash when clicking a file in the toolbar.
· Fixed a bug where the preferences window might ask you to save when you already had.
· Display of thumbnails for aliases to an image now works properly.
· Many miscellaneous little code changes.
September 4th, 2009New Features:
· New slideshow controller. We’re now using the terrific BGHUDAppKit framework by Tim Davis of Binary Method for HUD-style controls.
· Modified thumbnail caching scheme to avoid using too much memory when browsing folders with thousands of images.
· Added warning when opening large numbers of images at once.
· Added option to group folders first in thumbnail view.
Bugs Fixed:
· Image orientations should now always be correct.
· Fixed many bugs in slideshow and slideshow settings.
September 2nd, 2009New Features:
· Now 64 bit on capable systems.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed issues with slideshow sorting. Please let us know if there are any more problems.
· Fixed more memory leaks.
· Setting desktop picture works in Snow Leopard.
· Selecting marked images when you’ve marked images in multiple folders now works.
· Better error/consistency checking when dragging and dropping files.
June 11th, 2009New Features:
· “Quick Tips” window that gives a basic summary of how gBrowser works.
· Thumbnail sharpening now works (had been disabled for testing).
· Rewrote some descriptions in the preferences & menu bars to make them easier to understand.
· Changed a few default settings.
· Added a hot key to start a slideshow with selected files.
· New icon for Collections file.
Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed an issue with subfolders of aliases in the sidebar.
· Fixed a few more memory leaks.
· Fixed an issue where unzipped files might not appear properly.
· Fixed a bug in thumbnail loading code.
· Slideshow controller & mouse now disappear like they should.
· Duplicated files now get the proper extension.
· Warnings about file renaming are no longer doubled.
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