PhotoQt

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): https://gitlab.com/luspi/photoqt

Score 85.0%

Description:

A fast, simple, good looking, yet powerfull and highly configureable image viewer.

PhotoQt v1.7 comes only about three months after v1.6, yet it once again brings a host of changes and improvements. Besides general speed improvements, it brings a wider range of supported image formats, several new and exciting features and fixes many bugs.

You can find all the downloads for PhotoQt on the website: http://photoqt.org/down

For release notes and a couple lines about this update, check this article:
https://photoqt.org/photoqt-v1-7-is-now-available/

Some notes about the bug fix release 1.7.1 can be found here:
https://photoqt.org/photoqt-v1-7-1-squashing-some-bugs/

You can contact me per email: Lukas --(at)-- photoqt --.dot.-- org

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Enjoy PhotoQt!! :-)

Last changelog:

Release v1.7.1 1 year ago

- Fix: Animated images would not load
- Fix: The more images in a directory the slower PhotoQt would load first image
- Fix: Deleting an image would lead to infinite 'loading' indicator
- Fix: List of releases in appdata file was in reverse order
- Add: Show 'busy' cursor while loading a Loader item

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symbianflo
3 years ago

Updated to 1.4
Build against qt 5.6.0

Thanks for sharing your work , awesome image viewer.

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kicher
3 years ago

Thanks a million :-)

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symbianflo
3 years ago

Just doin' my civic duty :D
please read your mails.

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kicher
3 years ago

:-)

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symbianflo
5 years ago

parallel build broken , make j1 used for build.

Thanks for sharing your work.

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kicher
5 years ago

Thanks for letting me know!

It's fixed on GitHub by adding a DEPENDS to the resource generation (tested with -j2 and -j4):
https://github.com/luspi/photoqt-dev/commit/1b0ba616139ab74f5072d3e57ab77314674e0f7b

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symbianflo
5 years ago

Thank you for the quick answer.

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janet
5 years ago

Looks very good. And thanks for making it possible to increase the font size for the file information. But please, can you also do this for the information on the thumbnail? I really cannot read anything on them (I have chosen the biggest possible size for the file information and that is the smallest possible size for me).

Maybe you can also add an option to increase the size of the shown file name in the upper left corner? Maybe an option to increase all text? And maybe even more than the biggest size now is?

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kicher
5 years ago

Hi janet,

Thanks for the feedback! I think, it'd really be a good idea to be able to adjust the font size of all text in general... I'll look into that! You'll probably be able to see it implemented incrementally in the code on GitHub, as for the next release I'll solely be working on fixing/improving/updating the current feature set.

Regards
Lukas

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Voroshek
5 years ago

CMakeFiles/photoqt.dir/slideshow/slideshowbar.cpp.o: In function `SlideShowBar::SlideShowBar(QMap<QString, QVariant>, QWidget*, bool)':
undefined reference to `Phonon::AudioOutput::AudioOutput(Phonon::Category, QObject*)'
Any ideas?

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kicher
5 years ago

Hi Voroshek,

Can you make sure, that you have Phonon installed on your system?

You could try passing the "-DPHONON=OFF" to cmake before compiling (though this will disable the Phonon features, i.e. playback of music during a slideshow). Starting with the next version 1.1 (which should be coming over the next few weeks), Phonon will no longer be needed, but I'll make use of the Qt5 Multimedia functionality...

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Voroshek
5 years ago

Hi.
Yes, i have install all phonon librares and headers and i have try the "-PHONON=OFF". My sound system is damaged, maybe why.
I did not know, any application can not be installed for this.
Thanks.

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kicher
5 years ago

Hm, with Phonon installed, there should be no problem... Which system/distro are you using?

Btw: It's "-DPHONON=OFF", don't forget the "D" after the dash "-" (though that might just have been a typo here)...

If nothing works, try passing the above flag to a fresh compilation (i.e. delete "old" build/ folder and re-create it)...

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Voroshek
5 years ago

After re-create in new "build" with "-DPHONON=OFF" compilation run good (of course I have typo here :-)).
Thanks for your help and program, it is fine.

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kicher
5 years ago

Glad it's working now :-)
Regards
Lukas

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NeverHadaDreamComeTrue
6 years ago

there is a problem in version 0.9.1.
exiv2- No such file or directory

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kicher
6 years ago

Well, that sounds like exiv2 is missing on your system...

Btw: I'd recommend using v1.0 since it brings many updates and bug fixes.

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Sagart
6 years ago

Very sorry for duplicate.

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Sagart
6 years ago

Hello, great viewer. But I have a problem with opening some images by clicking on them directly from desktop by double clicking on them, for example. When opening from inside of your program, everything works. I found out that this is due to some extra characters in file names of that images, or/and in the path of the image. That are some Czech characters: "ě,š,č,ř,ž,ý,á,í,é,ú,ů,ó,ň,ď,ť and it's upper case equialents.
In example:
/home/user/obrázky/foto.jpg -> will not show
/home/user/obrazky/foto.jpg -> will show
/home/user/obrazky/růže.jpg -> will not show
/home/user/obrazky/ruze.jpg -> will show
/home/user/OBRÁZKY/foto.jpg -> will not show

Can you please fix it? As I said, this is amazing and fast viewer, but for now unusable for me because I have very much image names named in Czech.

Thanx :-)

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kicher
6 years ago

Hi Sagart,

Sorry for the late reply, have been gone on holidays the last three weeks...

Did you try the latest development snapshot? This issue should already be fixed there. You can find the latest code on github: https://github.com/luspi/photoqt

Let me know if that works...

Regards
Lukas

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Sagart
6 years ago

Perfect!! Seems to work properly, thankx a lot man!

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kicher
6 years ago

No problem, am glad that's sorted :)

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Sagart
6 years ago

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symbianflo
7 years ago

Now this is what I call development .
Switch to cmake , updating rpm in contrib.
Thank you , keep going you are doing great.

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kicher
7 years ago

Thanks :)

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Release v1.7.1 1 year ago

PhotoQt v1.7 1 year ago

- Add: proper support for formats supported by KDE image plugins
- Add: FreeImage image library
- Add: DevIL image library
- Add: Poppler (for: PDF (inline or document viewer mode))
- Add: libarchive (for: comic book archives, ZIP, RAR, 7ZIP, TAR)
- Add: unrar (Unix-only) (for: better RAR support)
- Add: Detect images also by MIME type and not only by file ending
- Add: Detect, display and manage people tags (stored in XMP metadata)
- Add: Current Zoom level to quick info label
- Add: Setting to adjust step size of zoom
- Add: Basic Window Management (using quick info labels)
- Improve: GraphicsMagick speed
- Improve: Usability of PhotoQt on small screens
- Improve: More efficient and compact fileformats handling
- Fix: Trash for files on removable drive
- Fix: Masking image display shown when needed
- Fix: many small bugs
- Improve: overall speed and responsiveness

PhotoQt v1.6 2 years ago

- Re-structuring of code, taking better advantage of QML property bindings
- Hiding most elements behind Loader items for faster start-up
- Add: proper touchscreen support
- Add: Uploading of images to imgur.com
- Add: Copy images to clipboard
- Add: Ability to freely move main image
- Add: Split 'ThumbnailKeepVisible' setting into 1) always visible, 2) visible when image not zoomed
- Add: Export/Import configuration and shortcuts
- Add: Handle case of directory passed on command line (instead of image)
- Add: Transparency marker option
- Add: one shortcut for multiple functions
- Change: Default shortcuts set (e.g., default shortcut for settings managernow 'p')
- Redo: 'Open File' element, more versatile and reliable
- Add/Change: Open File now has two hover preview modes: quick (uses thumbnail) or full
- Add/Change: Left pane of Open File element can be hidden (hides if nothing is there or window is resized rather small)
- Redo: New 'loading image' indicator
- Fix: rotating very wide images properly fits them into the window
- Fix: so many bugs along with re-structuring they cannot be counted
- Fix: more bugs
- Fix: and more bugs
- Fix: and more bugs

PhotoQt 1.5.1 3 years ago

- Replace: Custom histogram drawing implementation (removal of QtCharts
- Remove: QtQuick.Window and QtQuick.Dialogs dependencies

PhotoQt 1.5 3 years ago

- Add: new shortcuts handling, including mouse/touch gestures
- Add: histogram (colour and greyscale)
- Add: Watch images/directory for changes and update if one is detected
- Add: option to keep zoom/rotation/mirror when switching images
- Add: filename and image position to metadata element
- Add: exit button to mainmenu element
- Add: re-open last used image on startup
- Fix: starting new version of photoqt with image passed on remembers and opens image after welcome message
- Fix: prevent possible exiv2 crash
- Fix: quickinfo labels move to the right when metadata is set to non-floating
- Fix: image scaling bug when window size is small
- Fix/improve: display properly scaled down version when not zoomed -> better display quality
- Fix/improve: image engine
- Removed/Replaced: option to remember zoom/rotation/mirror on a per image basis
- Remake: new thumbnailbar, letting qml handle more of it, better performance but fewer options
- Fix: many bugs, small and large...