Geeqie Changelog

What's new in Geeqie 1.0 Beta 2

Sep 28, 2009

added sample external scripts for lossless rotation, photo management with
ufraw-batch and for import of GQview metadata
many bugfixes
localized string freeze

New in Geeqie 1.0 Beta 1 (May 14, 2009)

active image follows keyboard focus
added simple desktop file editor
layout id "_current_" matches the currently active layout window
added a possibility to update existing bars from config
added tooltips to external editors on toolbar, added "load config" command to remote control
added possibility to update existing layout window from config
added function to reload external editors at any time
added more IPTC tags
implemented editing support in exif pane
fixed loading of desktop file icons, gtk seems to expect an icon name without extension
compute histogram in idle time
completely separated global and layout window options, layout window configuration is available under separate menu entry
do not allow to add keywords with the same name as siblings
added keyword tree filtering
show file name in advanced_exif
handle sidecar files for raw formats that are not known to exiv2
added a dialog for editing keyword tree
added a popup menu in keyword tree
Remove the toggle on advanced exif window menu item.
Advanced exif window: make all columns sortable and resizable.
Display icons in edit contextual menu.
In various Edit context menus, only display editors that match the file types in the selection.
allow dropping of multiple keywords
show a label instead of the default drag icon
implemented keywords editor as described at http://geeqie.wiki.sourceforge.net/keywords
Try to improve tab completion: when a key is pressed while tab completion menu is shown, the number of entries is reduced, dhowing all matching entries but the menu is no more closed after each key pressure. Number of possible entries in this menu was increased from 500 to 1000. Pressing TAB when path entry is empty now adds / (root directory).
added popup menu to the exif pane
indicate that the exif pane is empty
Display pixel coordinates and rgb, patch by Ruben Stein
reorder exif pane entries with drag and drop
overlay now survives image split
Add a directory separator at the end of names in tab completion list to indicate directories.
Align exif labels vertically (visually better since name is now smaller than value).
Enable 'Use profile from image' item of color management menu only if such profile information is available from image.
In the side bar, display the filename without the 'Filename:' prefix and makes it centered. Allow to select it for copy'n'paste.
Color profiles menu: test for file access before allowing to select it as input profile.
load icons for external editors
split overlay options between global and layout window
save and restore toolbar configuration
Add an indicator of the embedded color profile when recognized (a * just after sRGB or AdobeRGB compatible).
Color profiles menu: mark empty entries as inactive.
Add a tooltip showing current histogram state on bar histogram.
correctly save and restore overlay string
Save bar pane histogram state to rc file.
Add a contextual menu on bar pane histogram allowing to change channels and mode.
Drop histogram based on mean value.
config file format changed to XML
Add grid to bar histogram.
Fix bug 2599857: file list sort order was wrong in many cases.
separated "normal" and advanced exif, "Normal" exif is now in the generic bar, advanced exif is in separate window.
replaced bar_info with an universal bar
Start with "Fit to window" in "Leave Zoom at previous setting" mode
do not switch to the next image on mouse click in split mode, it interferes with image switching too much.
Speed up random slideshow, startup time decreases from minutes to seconds when amount of images is big. Patch by Kjell Morgenstern.
Do not show geeqie itself in editors menus.
read external editors from .desktop files
Invert Horizontally vs vertically zoom fit, it was a TRUE/FALSE mismatch, reported by Christopher Beland.
Remove harmful documentation.helpdir and documentation.htmldir options. These paths can still be modified through with-readmedir and --htmldir configure options. Reported by Christopher Beland.
show symlinks in filelist
added a status bar button for writting metadata immediately
metadata write mode (direct or sidecar) made configurable for each file format

New in Geeqie 1.0 Alpha 3 (Jan 26, 2009)

Marks filtering
Marks in iconview were made clickable
Add an option named layout.home_path which modifies the behavior of the Home button. By default, pressing this button goes to the user's home directory. When this option is set to a path, this path is used instead. One can change the option value through Preferences > Advanced > Navigation or directly in .geeqierc.
Allow to override documentation paths through options:
documentation.helpdir
documentation.htmldir Default values are set at configure time.
Run image loader in separate thread - improved speed on dual-core processors
Add a Save button to Preferences dialog, which allow to save options to file without quitting the application.
Allow to change image.scroll_reset_method in Preferences > Image.
Allow all Preferences pages to scroll vertically.
use SHIFT for connected scroll and zoom SHIFT + keys or mouse: affects all split windows keys or mouse: affects only active window CONTROL + mouse: moves fast (originally it was SHIFT + mouse)
Add support for GPSInfo - patch by Klaus Ethgen
Implement the search for image comment - patch by Klaus Ethgen
Added option to use exif thumbnails:
it requires exiv2 0.18 or the current svn
it is disabled by default because the exif thumbnails may be outdated if the image was edited
Add a button for each advanced entry in Properties Exif Panel that allow to remove it from display.
Custom exif look was improved: toggle instead of button,display description instead of property key
Let Create thumbnails start in current directory (fallback to home directory if not available) as requested by Marcin Zajaczkowski (feature request 2166691)
Do a gtk_init before the parsing of command line arguments to allow gtk specific options, see http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/2.14/gtk-running.html
Html documentation was reformatted
When more than one image is selected, Split Horizontal, Vertical and Quad will use selected images when initialized
Hide .gqv extension from collection name in collection window title and recent menu list
.pef .dng and .arw extensions were added to default sidecar extensions list, .k25 was added in Kodak raw extensions
Display error dialog with appropriate message when user is trying to open an invalid collection file
Allow to invert the current selection in Collection view. A new Selection submenu was added to the contextual menu, Select All and Select None were moved to it, and Invert selection was added.
Allow to drag keywords on files in list or icon view. Dragged text is appended to keywords list of the destination file.
Switch to fullscreen when double clicking on file in icon or list view (feature request 1966042)
New option: metadata.save_legacy_IPTC ("Store keywords and comments also in legacy IPTC tags")
New option: metadata.warn_on_write_problems ("Warn if the image files are unwritable")
New option: metadata.save_legacy_format ("Save metadata in GQview legacy metadata format")
New option: metadata.sync_grouped_files ("Write the same keywords and comment to all files in a group")
New option: metadata.confirm_write ("Ask before writing to image files")
New option: metadata.confirm_timeout ("Write metadata after timeout (seconds):")
New option: metadata.confirm_on_image_change ("Write metadata on image change")
New option: metadata.confirm_on_dir_change ("Write metadata on directory change")
File class was made configurable in Preferences dialog
A possibility to connect keywords with marks was implemented
Improved sidecar writting, private metadata can be saved in xmp format
Sidecar files grouping was made case-insensitive added possibility to use macros %raw, %image, %meta in extensions lists
Do not enter a directory after rename
When "Remember print settings" is checked, save _all_ settings. Before this, text fields, text size, source, layout and image scale properties were not saved.
Added preview support for many RAW formats (Exiv2 0.18 is required)