gThumb Changelog

What's new in gThumb 3.8.3

Dec 30, 2019
  • Bugs fixed:
  • App icons: name the app icons with the application id (!77)
  • Jpeg loader: crash when the original size is too big for a cairo surface.
  • Fixed run-time errors if exiv2 is not used.
  • Fixed window size the first time gThumb is executed.

New in gThumb 3.8.2 (Nov 19, 2019)

  • User visible changes:
  • Use menus instead of popovers for menu buttons on the header bar, to show icons and accelerators.
  • Header bar: align menus to the right for menu buttons on the right side.
  • Tools menu: show the accelerators.
  • Search: show the matching files during the search operation.
  • Rename dialog: activate on enter. (Ivan Ershov)
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed filesize test for big files.
  • Overwrite dialog: do not show an error after cancelling the operation.
  • Fixed crash when moving files to the trash.
  • Install missing UI files. (Dan Horák)
  • Added image/webp support in .desktop file. (Baltix Mantas) (!55)
  • Fix callback signature for value-changed signal when setting zoom (Dan Horák) (!54)
  • Help: corrected wiki link. (Wylel) (!2)
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Catalan (Jordi Mas)
  • Italiano (Gianvito Cavasoli)
  • New or updated manual translations:
  • Spanish - Spain (Daniel Mustieles)

New in gThumb 3.8.1 (Sep 30, 2019)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Selections: fixed possible crash after reordering the files.
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Basque (Alexander Gabilondo)
  • catalan (Jordi Mas)
  • Croatian (gogo)
  • Dutch (Paul Matthijsse)
  • Turkish (Sabri Ünal)

New in gThumb 3.8.0 (May 28, 2019)

  • New features and user visible changes:
  • Delete dialog: make the delete button red
  • Bugs fixed:
  • build error when JPEG_LIB_VERSION < 80 (!44)

New in gThumb 3.7.2 (May 5, 2019)

  • New features and user visible changes:
  • Added ability to drag an image from the viewer. (!24)
  • Image viewer: use a checked pattern as background for transparent images.
  • Thumbnails: do not use a white background for images with transparencies. (!37)
  • Photo importer: remember the last used filter.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Deleting picture sometimes removes wrong file. (!29)
  • When changing a file metadata update the folder as well. (!28)
  • New library: always shows 'name already used' error. (!43)
  • Fixed crash when deleting files and moving to trash is not possible.
  • JPEG loader: fixed possible crash when a jpeg image is broken.
  • Fixed JPEG lossless rotation. (!22)
  • Fixed git url in README. (!40)
  • Fix the build with exiv2 0.27 (Kalev Lember) (!30)
  • Fails to build when passing -Dgstreamer=false (!35)
  • Fixed other build issues. (Kalev Lember) (Timo Gurr)
  • Preferences dialog: fix link to "More extensions".
  • Grid view: fixed layout after changing thumbnail size.
  • Bookmarks dialog: fixed icons color.
  • New or updated application translations:
  • catalan (Jordi Mas)
  • Dutch (Nathan Follens)
  • Finnish (Jiri Grönroos)
  • French (Claude Paroz)
  • German (Mario Blättermann)
  • Indonesian (Kukuh Syafaat)
  • Italiano (Gianvito Cavasoli)
  • Lietuvių (Aurimas Černius)
  • Portuguese - Brazil (Rafael Fontenelle)
  • српски (Марко М. Костић)
  • New or updated manual translations:
  • Dutch (Paul Matthijsse)

New in gThumb 3.7.1 (Feb 20, 2019)

  • New features and user visible changes:
  • Removed the application menu.
  • Sidebar: show the property views in expandable sections.
  • Thumbnail list: spread the thumbnails horizontally to fill the available space.
  • Video viewer: added option to use opengl instead of cairo.
  • Show the rating as a sequence of stars.
  • Color picker: use lowercase letters for the hexadecimal value.
  • Contact sheet: set the current directory as destination if possible.
  • Script dialog: wider list to make all columns visible.
  • Use meson as build system.

New in gThumb 3.6.2 (Sep 30, 2018)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Updated links to wiki page (#795126)
  • Desktop background: fixed the way to obtain the monitor geometry.
  • Recognize the asf mime type as a video format.
  • Image loader: fixed memory leak when the operation was cancelled.
  • Avoid flickering when scaling the image takes some time.
  • Image navigator: fixed popup positioning.
  • Do not crash when loading broken jpeg images.
  • Preferences: fixed crash when setting the current location as default.
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Dutch (Paul Matthijsse)
  • French (Claude Paroz)
  • Icelandic (Sveinn í Felli)
  • New or updated manual translations:
  • Dutch (Paul Matthijsse)
  • es (Daniel Mustieles)
  • French (Claude Paroz)

New in gThumb 3.6.1 (Mar 14, 2018)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed crash when browsing folders with images and videos. (#760214)
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Isaac Ferreira Filho)
  • Croatian (gogo)
  • es (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Esperanto (Kristjan SCHMIDT)
  • Hungarian (Balázs Úr)
  • New or updated manual translations:
  • es (Daniel Mustieles)

New in gThumb 3.6.0 (Nov 21, 2017)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Numeric keypad nav keys don't work (#667390)
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Danish (Alan Mortensen)

New in gThumb 3.5.3 (Oct 25, 2017)

  • New features and user visible changes:
  • Add app menu entries to the gear menu if the app menu is not supported by the desktop environment.
  • Updated appdata file.
  • Fixed help markup. (Andre Klapper)
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Rafael Fontenelle)
  • catalan (Jordi Mas)
  • Chinese/Traditional (Cheng-Chia Tseng)
  • Danish (Ask Hjorth Larsen)
  • Deutsch (Mario Blättermann)
  • es (Daniel Mustieles)
  • French (Claude Paroz)
  • Hungarian (Balázs Úr)
  • Indonesian (Kukuh Syafaat)
  • Italiano (Gianvito Cavasoli)
  • Polish (Piotr Drąg)
  • srpski (Miroslav Nikolić)
  • Swedish (Josef Andersson)
  • čeština (Marek Černocký)
  • српски (Мирослав Николић)
  • New or updated manual translations:
  • es (Daniel Mustieles)
  • čeština (Marek Černocký)

New in gThumb 3.5.1 (Mar 3, 2017)

  • New features and user visible changes:
  • Added support for double click activation.
  • Added option to open files in fullscreen mode.
  • Added a zoom popover with various zoom commands and a zoom slider.
  • Added a color picker.
  • All dialogs: use the headerbar if supported by the desktop environment (if 'gtk-dialogs-use-header' is set).
  • App menu: added 'keyboard shortcuts'.
  • Tag filter: added ability to filter using a regular expression.
  • Sort catalogs by name, then by date.
  • Gif animations: allow to pause and view the next frame.
  • Added the control-o accelerator to open the location dialog.
  • Keep the zoom buttons on the headerbar if the tool allow to zoom the image.
  • Added a fullscreen button to the headerbar in viewer mode.
  • Find duplicates: speed optimizations.
  • New folder: open the folder after creating it.
  • Hide the image frame when in fullscreen mode.
  • Moved the photo importer preferences to the extension section.
  • Find duplicates: more responsive when the duplicate list is huge.
  • Added support for image/x-fuji-raf raw files. (Michael J. Chudobiak) (#709385)
  • Fixed RTL icons and arrow rendering. (Michael J. Chudobiak) (#747380)
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Ensure the settings have been saved before exiting.
  • Desktop background: always create a unique filename to force an update.
  • Desktop background: fixed error when setting an xcf image as background.
  • Resize: fixed wrong aspect ratio after opening. (Vaclav Brozek)
  • Slideshow: start on the same monitor of the window.
  • Sizing issues in gthumb preferences under gtk+ git master. (#770546)
  • Adjust contrast: better description of the stretch method (#767615)
  • Removed deprecated gnome-common macros (#768528)
  • Fixed scrollbars resetting their position when changing image.
  • Fixed theme errors with gtk+ 3.20.
  • Do not show rotation tools for animations.
  • Crash after pressing shift-arrow. (#760050)
  • Stopping slideshow freezes entire program. (#759787)
  • Disambiguate labels of various metadata "date" fields. (#728471)
  • Crash if trying to delete image on sftp mounted. (#759727)
  • Crash when deleting duplicate. (#750142)
  • Various minor typos fixed. (Michael J. Chudobiak) (#756486)
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Many. (thanks to all the translators)

New in gThumb 3.4.4.1 (Oct 29, 2016)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • gthumb 3.4.4 fails post build check 64bit-portability-issue (#772739)
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Croatian (gogo)

New in gThumb 3.4.4 (Oct 11, 2016)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Sizing issues in gthumb preferences under gtk+ git master. (#770546)
  • Hide the image frame when in fullscreen mode. (#767731)
  • Fixed headerbar buttons not shown correctly after activating a tool.
  • Orginaze files: fixed wrong catalog cardinality.
  • Fixed scrollbars resetting their position when changing image.
  • Find duplicates: faster.
  • New folder: open the created folder.
  • Print dialog: expand the options side to make the zoom slider visible.
  • Fixed wrong image loaded after deleting an image from a catalog.
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Croatian (gogo)
  • Indonesian (Andika Triwidada)

New in gThumb 3.4.3 (Apr 12, 2016)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Theme errors with gtk+ 3.20
  • Viewer sidebar too wide
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Serbian (Мирослав Николић)
  • Serbian (Miroslav Nikolić)

New in gThumb 3.4.1 (Oct 5, 2015)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed build on Fedora 23 (Kalev Lember) (#747982)
  • Allow cross-compiling (Quentin Glidic) (#755390)
  • New or updated application translations
  • New or updated manual translations

New in gThumb 3.3.4 (Mar 31, 2015)

  • New features and user visible changes:
  • Image viewer: added 'fit to height' button.
  • Drag&Drop: move files by default.
  • Ask confirmation before moving files with a drag&drop operation.
  • Make 'delete files' and 'trash files' asyncronous.
  • Use the default gtk+ style for message dialogs. Use the header-bar for request dialogs.
  • Changed 'adjust contrast' shortcut to 'a'. 'h' is now used to fit to height.
  • Added a symbolic application icon.
  • Fixed comment pane style with gtk+ 3.16.
  • Show the app menu on the headerbar if the shell doesn't show it.
  • Preferences dialog: fixed extensions activation/deactivation.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Webalbums: do not exit if a fatal error is issued (#744530)
  • Build failure on x32 (kilobyte)
  • Image viewer: the overview quickly appears and disappears sometimes.
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Bosnian (Samir Ribic)
  • Czech (Marek Černocký)
  • Hungarian (Balázs Úr)
  • Lietuvių (Aurimas Černius)
  • Polish (Piotr Drąg)
  • Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
  • Ελληνικά, Σύγχρονα (Tom Tryfonidis)
  • עברית (Yosef Or Boczko)
  • New or updated manual translations:
  • Czech (Marek Černocký)
  • Greek (Maria Mavridou)
  • Swedish (Daniel Nylander)

New in gThumb 3.3.3 (Feb 10, 2015)

  • New features and user visible changes:
  • Allow to apply the embedded color profile for jpeg images.
  • New image tools: special effects; curves.
  • Unified 'equalize histogram' and 'adjust contrast': show a preview of the various contrast filters.
  • Grayscale tool: show a preview of the different filters.
  • Fixed the interface style when used with gtk+ 3.14
  • File propery view: use a switcher; added a details page that show all the metadata, show only the important exif fields in the properties page.
  • UI changes to the preferences dialog: use a sidebar instead of a notebook to avoid a large dialog with some translations; better spacing; removed the Ok button.
  • Video player: save the screenshot without showing the dialog. Allow to set the screenshots location in the extension preferences dialog. Show a message in the statusbar after saving.
  • Gear menu: use the new icon if using gtk+ 3.13 or newer
  • Bugs fixed:
  • video player: do not hide the mediabar when using the volume control
  • Forbidden when trying to upload to Flickr (#732557)
  • Build against either webkit2gtk-3.0 or webkit2gtk-4.0 (Dominique Leuenberger)
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Basque (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Rafael Ferreira)
  • Chinese/Traditional (Cheng-Chia Tseng)
  • Czech (Marek ÄŒernocký)
  • Español; Castellano (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Finnish (Lasse Liehu)
  • Hungarian (Balázs Úr)
  • Indonesian (Andika Triwidada)
  • Polish (Piotr DrÄ…g)
  • Serbian (Мирослав Николић)
  • Serbian (Miroslav Nikolić)
  • Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
  • עברית (Yosef Or Boczko)

New in gThumb 3.3.2 (May 19, 2014)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Allow the user to edit tags using the contextual menu also (#728467)
  • Special directories: added DOWNLOAD, removed DESKTOP (#728445,#728446)
  • Web album: fixed thumbnail size (#727775)
  • Desktop background: use the stretched option in some cases (#726708)
  • Make copy and paste in same folder equivalent to duplicating (#722726)
  • Can view tiff files, but can not print. (#726260)
  • image viewer: use a smaller frame border (#726091)
  • Extra image appears in image viewer (#722631)
  • Added AppData file for GNOME Software Center (#722770)
  • Ctrl+P doesn't work (#722707)
  • Script editor: help buttons don't work (#722925)
  • Toolbox: Fix the undo and the redo symbols in RTL (Yosef Or Boczko) (#723542)
  • Sharpen: Fix the undo symbols in RTL (Yosef Or Boczko) (#723542)
  • Rotate image: Fix the undo symbols in RTL (Yosef Or Boczko) (#723542)
  • Adjust colors: Fix the undo symbols in RTL (Yosef Or Boczko) (#723542)
  • Updated obsolete info in license text. updated using a script written by Andika Triwidadan (#721455)
  • gThumb doesn't honour privacy settings (#722349)
  • Remove unnecessary gdkx.h include from gth-screensaver. (Robert Roth) (#597594)
  • Use unity-control-center if in Unity (Rober Ancell) (#722233)
  • Fix build failing without libtiff installed. (Robert Roth) (#722183)
  • Cannot Save As with uppercase .JPG (#721281)
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Czech
  • Deutsch
  • Spanish
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Italiano
  • Lietuvin
  • Polish
  • Serbian
  • Serbian
  • Greek
  • New or updated manual translations:
  • Greek
  • Spanish

New in gThumb 3.2.7 (Mar 26, 2014)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Cannot Save As with uppercase .JPG (#721281)
  • Fix build failing without libtiff installed. (Robert Roth) (#722183)
  • Fixed continuous reloading of the current image.
  • Website link in about windows is wrong. (#725262)
  • New or updated manual translations:
  • Greek

New in gThumb 3.3.1 (Jan 17, 2014)

  • Use a GtkHeaderBar instead of a menu and a toolbar.
  • Use the dark theme.
  • Better raw image support, using libraw instead of libopenraw.
  • Image viewer: show a frame around the image; use an overview window to scroll the image instead of the scrollbars; better quality for zoomed out images.
  • Faster image loader for big images.
  • Media player: hide the mediabar after a timeout.
  • Filterbar: added buttons to view the selections.
  • File properties: show only the basic properties, allow to show all of them.
  • Image tools: use a grid layout for the buttons
  • Use a separate dialog for the file tool options.
  • Use symbolic icons everywhere.
  • Added a custom tiff loader.
  • Add a rating-based filter. (Louis-Marie Mouton)
  • App menu: removed 'keyboard shortcuts'.
  • Histogram view: save and restore the scale type.

New in gThumb 3.2.6 (Jan 4, 2014)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Rotating image destroys XMP and IPTC metadata. (#719622)
  • Command line ignored for the second window. (#712716)

New in gThumb 3.2.5 (Nov 27, 2013)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Media viewer: fixed progress bar behaviour in gtk+ 3.10
  • Empty file format options dialog after canceling it once. (#711788)
  • Fixed endless image reloading for some images.
  • Fixed display of the manual.
  • Default parameters for image resizing are misleading. (Christian Krause) (#710479)

New in gThumb 3.2.4 (Oct 15, 2013)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed error when rotating jpeg images. (#709698)
  • Fixed broken window layout with gtk+ 3.10 (#708800)
  • Fixed crash when opening the preferences dialog.
  • Find duplicates: fixed crash when using a predefined directory (Christian Krause) (#706697)
  • Fixed crash when attempting to play a video under special circumstances. (Christian Krause) (#706343)
  • Fixed crash when copying or moving files. (#705877)
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Indonesian Translation (Andika Triwidada)
  • Latvian (RÅ«dolfs Mazurs)

New in gThumb 3.2.3 (Jul 11, 2013)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Flickr: allow to use a facebook or google account. (#703534)
  • Thumbnail list: images drawn with wrong offset. (#702538)
  • Fixed the video player stopping after saving a screenshot.
  • Fixed saving of TGA images.
  • Fixed the size of the toolbar in fullscreen mode.
  • Show the cursor again after stopping the slideshow.
  • Web services: do not delete the previous account when creating a new one.
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Russian (Yuri Myasoedov)

New in gThumb 3.2.2 (May 14, 2013)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Resize, Convert: correctly set the destination folder.
  • Fixed the file list style with Gtk+ 3.8

New in gThumb 3.2.1 (Apr 19, 2013)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Facebook: fixed authentication.
  • Slideshow: fixed audio playback.
  • Filter-bar: fixed the spin button width for the file size control.
  • Bookmarks: fixed ability to modify the bookmarks.
  • Image viewer: allow to use button 2 to drag the image.
  • Fixed unrecognized configure option --disable-libjson-glib (#696783)

New in gThumb 3.2.0 (Mar 28, 2013)

  • New features and user visible changes:
  • added ability load xcf images
  • always use a dark background in the image viewer
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Deutsch (Christian Kirbach)
  • French (Claude Paroz)
  • Hungarian (Balázs Úr)
  • Italiano (Gianvito Cavasoli)
  • New or updated manual translations:
  • Deutsch (Mario Blättermann)
  • French (Bruno Brouard)
  • Argentina (Marek ÄŒernocký)

New in gThumb 3.1.4 (Mar 5, 2013)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed creation of blur thumbnails for jpeg images
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Rafael Ferreira)
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Lietuvių (Aurimas ÄŒernius)
  • Polish (Piotr DrÄ…g)
  • Serbian (Мирослав Николић)
  • Serbian (Miroslav Nikolić)
  • Slovenian (Matej Urbančič)

New in gThumb 3.1.3 (Jan 24, 2013)

  • New features and user visible changes:
  • Fixed uploading to Facebook and all other web services.
  • Added ability to import photos from Facebook.
  • Save and restore the thumbnail list size.
  • Selections: pressing control-n (with n in 1,2,3) again goes back to the previous view.
  • Monitor all the expanded locations in the folder tree.
  • Show a progress dialog for long saving operations.
  • Added keybindings to delete files in catalog view: control+delete moves to trash; shift+delete deletes from disk.
  • Allow to delete the tags from the default tag list.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Web album export produces invalid HTML. (#691123)
  • Fixed thumbnail generation for rotated images.
  • Fixed the thumbnail style in gtk 3.6
  • Video viewer: fixed progress bar for gtk 3.6
  • webp: fixed build for Big-Endian systems
  • Internal code changes:
  • Ported to GStreamer 1.0
  • Ported to libsecret
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Chinese (Hong Kong) (taijuin)
  • Chinese/Traditional (taijuin)
  • Español; Castellano (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Hungarian (Balázs Úr)
  • Polish (Piotr DrÄ…g)
  • Serbian (Саша Петровић)
  • Serbian (SaÅ¡a Petrović)
  • Slovenian Translation (Matej Urbančič)
  • čeÅ¡tina (Marek ÄŒernocký)
  • New or updated manual translations:
  • Español; Castellano (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Occitan (Yannig Marchegay (Kokoyaya))
  • Slovenian (Andrej ŽnidarÅ¡ič)
  • Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
  • čeÅ¡tina (Marek ÄŒernocký)
  • Ελληνικά (Sterios Prosiniklis)

New in gThumb 3.1.2 (Oct 16, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed images scaling producing black images.
  • Use gdk-3.0 to check the GDK target (#685674)
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Latvian (RÅ«dolfs Mazurs)

New in gThumb 3.1.1 (Sep 27, 2012)

  • Added ability to load and save WebP images.
  • Allow to specify the format options when saving a file (can be disabled).
  • Save and restore the window maximized state, the filterbar status, the visited locations history and the viewer sidebar status.
  • Image viewer: use the dark background by default, and use a more neutral color instead of black.
  • Video viewer: save and restore the volume level.
  • Read system bookmarks from XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/bookmarks. Fallback to ~/.gtk-bookmarks if the new file is not found. (#675401)
  • Use XDG_CACHE_HOME/thumbnails as thumbnail cache. Fallback to the old ~/.thumbnails directory if the new directory doesn't exists.
  • File list: align the caption to the left and use a smaller font.
  • Browser: show loading errors in the info bar instead of using a modal dialog.
  • Added automatic completion to the category entry.
  • Rotation tool: allow to rotate an image from -180 to 180 degrees.
  • Selections: allow to cut the files.
  • Added a menu item to hide/show the file properties.
  • Print: set a good default filename for the print-to-file operation.
  • Enhance colors: use a faster algorithm and rename to "Adjust Contrast".
  • Equalize histogram: use a faster algorithm.
  • Desaturate tool: added ability to choose the method to use, renamed to "Grayscale".
  • Removed the format chooser from the file dialog.
  • Added an high resolution application icon.
  • Add an application menu if used with GNOME Shell.

New in gThumb 3.0.1 (May 15, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Resize images: correctly restore the last used width and height (#675498)
  • Preserve XMP lists when saving an image. (#674908)
  • Fixed loading of thumbnails after re-enabling thumbnails again.
  • Fixed mouse wheel navigation with the video viewer.
  • Added a man page.
  • New or updated application translations:
  • French (Claude Paroz)
  • German (Christian Kirbach)
  • Russian (Yuri Myasoedov)

New in gThumb 3.0.0 (Apr 24, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Metadata category names WON'T show translated strings (Jiro Matsuzawa) (#674033)
  • Selections: fixed keyboard shortcuts for some keyboard layouts. (#673872)
  • Fixed compilation without libjpeg.
  • Ignore extensions with a different API version.
  • Fixed file navigation with the mouse wheel with Gtk+ 3.4.0 or greater.
  • Fixed possible crash when changing location.
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Czech (Marek Černocký)
  • Japanese (OKANO Takayoshi)
  • Norwegian/Bokmaal (Kjartan Maraas)

New in gThumb 2.14.2 (Jan 24, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed memory leak in 'Adjust Colors'. (#667931)
  • Fixed renaming of folders and catalogs.
  • Fixed names of the gconf keys for the 'change date' tool.
  • Fixed possible crash on startup.
  • New or updated application translations:
  • German (Christian Kirbach)

New in gThumb 2.12.3 (Apr 22, 2011)

  • Fixed crash when closing a window while the video viewer is active.
  • Prevent focus stealing when launching an application.
  • Make PgUp/PgDown navigation work when started in fullscreen mode. (#642848)
  • Image scrolling is now faster.
  • Web albums: fixed progress dialog not showing again after exporting the first time.
  • Fixed other bugs that caused crashes in some cases.
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Danish (Joe Hansen)
  • Swedish (Daniel Nylander)

New in gThumb 2.12.2 (Jan 13, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Correctly activate the default extensions when started the first
  • time. (#635475)
  • Enable building with exiv2-0.21 (Alexandre Rostovtsev) (#349150)
  • Launch a single instance of Gimp when opening many files at once. (#637234)
  • Fixed folder renaming. (#635417)
  • Fixed search in catalogs not ginving any result. (#638009)
  • Fixed crash on thumbnail generation.
  • Web Albums: update the file info when scaling the original image. (#637920)
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Basque (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio)
  • Deutsch (Mario Blättermann)
  • Japanese (Takeshi AIHANA)
  • Russian (Yuri Myasoedov)
  • New or updated manual translations:
  • German (Mario Blättermann)

New in gThumb 2.12.1 (Nov 16, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • When moving files do not delete the source if an error occurs. (#634615)
  • Thumbnails not shown when changing file sorting. (#631816)
  • Don't change image on mouse-wheel when editing an image. (#631205)
  • Respect the PREF_SAVE_THUMBNAILS and PREF_THUMBNAIL_LIMIT preference settings. (#631997)
  • Fixed crash when a file is renamed. (#634050)
  • PicasaWeb importer/exporter: let it work with non google email addresses as well. (#634052)
  • Facebook uploader: allow to upload to existing albums as well.(#632498)
  • Fixed build on BSD systems. (#630837, #630836)
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Catalan (Sílvia Miranda)
  • Español (Jorge González)
  • Greek (Kostas Papadimas)
  • Italian (Milo Casagrande)
  • New or updated manual translations:
  • Español (Jorge González)
  • French (Bruno Brouard)
  • Slovenian (Matej Urbančič)

New in gThumb 2.12.0 (Sep 28, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Do not make catalogs depend on search to fix a circular dependency. (#630311)
  • Fixed multi date update when set to 'date photo was taken'. (#630016)
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Deutsch (Mario Blättermann)
  • Indonesian (Andika Triwidada)
  • Lietuvių (Aurimas Černius)
  • Punjabi/Panjabi (A S Alam)

New in gThumb 2.11.92 (Sep 15, 2010)

  • New features and user visible changes:
  • Slideshow: use the same keyword shortcuts used in fullscreen mode: space to load the next image; backspace to load the previous image; F5 and q to exit the slideshow; p to pause the slideshow.
  • Display a pause symbol when the slideshow is paused (#627529)
  • Emit a beep when there is no next or previous file.
  • Do not load non-visible thumbnails for web albums to save bandwidth.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed 2.10 catalogs migration.
  • Improved image loading speed by loading the file before loading the metadata.
  • Importer: fixed big memory consumption when importing videos.
  • Fixed some loading errors when quickly changing images.
  • Fixed grid not visible in crop tool when using cairo >= 1.9.2
  • Fixed generation of thumbnails when an external script is used.
  • Fixed crash when closing the main window and a directory loading is underway.
  • Fixed visual glitches when scrolling an image.
  • Fixed crash when changing video in fullscreen mode.
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Czech (Marek Černocký)
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Finnish (Miika Laaksonen)
  • French (Bruno Brouard)
  • Italian (Paolo Benvenuto)
  • Slovenian Translation (Andrej Žnidaršič)
  • New or updated manual translations:
  • Español (Jorge González)

New in gThumb 2.11.91 (Aug 31, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Remember the inverse sorting option. (#628205)
  • Allow to print a modified image. (#595654)
  • Translate the selection type in the filter editor. (#627532)
  • Allow to create tags with spaces. (#628081)
  • Hide and disable some browser related commands in viewer mode. (#627534)
  • Fixed crash when changing the sorting order very fast. (#628071)
  • Fixed a crash when resizing many images. (#627688)
  • Fixed crash when saving comments. (#627929)
  • Fixed crash when closing the window. (#627535)
  • Export to PicasaWeb: show an error message if the authentication fails; allow to select another account if more then one is present. (#627531)
  • Allow to compile with libbrasero 3. (#627646)
  • Fixed the "save only modified fields" option in the comment dialog (#627439)
  • Fixed strings marked as translatable but not translated. (#627532)
  • Translate the property names in the property view.
  • Fixed the size of the vertical thumbnail pane: make the thumbnail pane big enough to avoid to scroll horizontally when its orientation is vertical
  • Fixed image viewer scrolling. (#627466)
  • Fixed saving of IPTC keyworks. Added support for multiple Xpm and Iptc metadata with the same key. (#627096)
  • Fixed saving of the 'Other' tab fields in the metadata dialog. Specify the type of the fields to allow to create them if they are not already present in the image. (#627231)
  • Allow to select non-local folders in the resize and convert tools (#627122)
  • More user's manual updates.
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Chinese (simplified) (lainme)
  • Czech (Marek Černocký)
  • Danish (Joe Hansen)
  • Deutsch (Mario Blättermann)
  • Español (Jorge González)
  • Slovenian (Andrej Žnidaršič)
  • New or updated manual translations:
  • Español (Jorge González)

New in gThumb 2.11.90 (Aug 17, 2010)

  • New features and user visible changes:
  • Slideshow: added ability to view the images in random order (#621244)
  • Change date tool: allow to set the date without touching the time (#622245)
  • Video player: display the video speed in the status bar and allow to change speed from 0.03 to 36.0 (#624454)
  • Removed the "do not change folder" option from the preferences dialog as it was useless.
  • Added ability to organize files by tag: the organize command can organize files by tag, creating a catalog for each tag found in the scanned images.
  • The "fit window to image" is now a toggle action. (#617488)
  • Added two orientation tools: added tool to physically rotate the images according to their embedded orientation; and a tool to reset the embedded orientation without rotating the images.
  • Removed the preferences button from the import dialogs: instead of the overwrite option just use the overwrite dialog when a file is going to be overwritten; the rotate option is used only when importing from a device and is set in the general preferences dialog.
  • New application icon.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed escaping of UTF-chars in ui file (Gabor Kelemen) (#626990)
  • Fixed comment lost when upgrading from 2.10 to 2.11. (#626893)
  • Fixed unnecessary reloading when setting a filter (#625937)
  • Fixed saving of Xmp and Iptc description and title fields (#626284)
  • Fixed catalog reordering when the catalog is sorted and/or filtered (#619442)
  • Fixed crash in fullscreen mode when viewing an image after a video. (#626686)
  • Activate the web album extension b default.
  • Correctly hide and show the mouse pointer in the video player.
  • Fixed search test when the "match any" option was active.
  • Flicker importer: fixed crash when the image url is not found
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Czech (Marek Černocký)
  • Deutsch (Mario Blättermann)
  • Español (Jorge González)
  • Slovenian (Andrej Žnidaršič)
  • New or updated manual translations:
  • Español (Jorge González)
  • German (Mario Blättermann)

New in gThumb 2.11.6 (Aug 3, 2010)

  • New features and user visible changes:
  • Added ability to sort by path (#625610)
  • Crop tool: allow to force dimesions as multiple of 8 or other sizes (#622385)
  • Convert the old catalogs to the new format and location (#618302)
  • Show an information dialog after creating a web album. from the dialog allow the user to open the web album in the browser, or to view the destination folder with the file manager. (#624264)
  • [desktop_background] added ability to reset or open the preferences. After setting a desktop background an info-bar is displayd at the bottom of the window to allow the user to reset the previous background or to open the background preferences.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Ignore hidden files and directories when importing files (#624579)
  • [importer] do not overwrite files with the same name (#624932)
  • [webalbums] rotate the destination file instead of the original file (#623906)
  • Fixed crash on paste. (#625187)
  • Fixed lossless rotation with libjpeg8. (#612809)
  • Remove the action group when a page is deactivated (#596906)
  • Do not link to the exiv2 extension if it's not built (#624326)
  • Preserve the exif data after a lossless rotation
  • Removed use of the gdk_draw_functions, always use cairo instead.
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Deutsch (Mario Blättermann)
  • Español (Jorge González)
  • French (Claude Paroz)
  • Norwegian/Bokmaal (Kjartan Maraas)
  • Slovenian Translation (Andrej Žnidaršič)
  • Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
  • New or updated manual translations:
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)

New in gThumb 2.11.5 (Jul 13, 2010)

  • New features and user visible changes:
  • Added ability to add a tag to the selected files from the context menu.
  • Added ability to assign a keyboard shortcut to a script.
  • Added ability to sort by image/video dimensions (#619299)
  • Added ability to search/filter by modified/original date (#623159)
  • Added other keyboard shortcuts.
  • Slideshow: added PageDown and PageUp as navigation keys (#623599)
  • Added the list of tags to the tag filter control.
  • Automatically select the catalog after creating it.
  • Use the non-clutter projector when no effect is selected.
  • Other updates to the user's manual.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Accessing exiv2 "pretty print" needs pointer to the metadata container (grm1209) (#623995)
  • Facebook plugin issues: automatically select a newly created catalog; apply embedded orientation before uploading; scale images to have 720 pixels as max dimension (#623617)
  • Fixed crash when dropping an image to an empty Library (#619491)
  • Only include gdk-pixbuf.h as required by the latest gdk-pixbuf (#623511)
  • Initialize all the info fields before registering (#620962)
  • Typing destination folder in preferences does not update it (#620765)
  • Cygwin support for 2.11 (#608115)
  • Fixed metadata write. (#623071)
  • Fixed crash when starting the slideshow with a folder without images.
  • Fixed crash when trying to print files that aren't images.
  • Fixed volume scale in the media player: allow to change the volume from 0 to 200% instead of from 0 to 1000%
  • Fixed multiple selection with shift + mouse click.
  • Fixed a memory leak in the slideshow.
  • Fixed tiff image corruption when saving the metadata.
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Czech (Marek Černocký)
  • Deutsch (Mario Blättermann)
  • Español (Jorge González)
  • French (Bruno Brouard)
  • Lithuanian (Žygimantas Beručka)
  • Slovenian (Andrej Žnidaršič)
  • New or updated manual translations:
  • Español (Jorge González)

New in gThumb 2.11.4 (Jun 29, 2010)

  • New features and user visible changes:
  • Added a PhotoBucket exporter.
  • Added a static web album creation tool.
  • Allow to edit the metadata of many files at the same time.
  • Use a simple slideshow with no 3D effects if clutter is not available.
  • Added option to choose the thumbnail pane orientation.
  • Added drag&drop support to the folder tree. (#593431)
  • In slideshow mode, make button 1 view the next image and button 3 the previous image.
  • In the Crop tool added an optional grid. (Michael J. Chudobiak) (#618026)
  • Added ability to select the aspect ratio in the Resize tool.
  • Added a share tool menu and the print command on the toolbar.
  • Allow to run gthumb even if clutter initialization fails.
  • Implemented the "confirm deletion" option. (#622386)
  • Avoid duplicates in the history. (#615442)
  • Expand parent after folder creation. (#616940)
  • Save and restore the options of "Rename files" dialog. (Christophe Bisière) (#618182)
  • Save and restore the options of the Crop and Resize tools.
  • Move "Set as Desktop Background" item from "Tools" menu to right-click popup menu. (Christophe Bisière) (#618430)
  • Added some aspect ratio in crop tools. (Stefano Pettini) (#587787)
  • Do not select the folder after right-clicking on it.
  • Updated the user's manual. Migrated to Mallard. (Michael J. Chudobiak)
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed crash when using the red-eye removal tool. (#623000)
  • Use mtime to sort imported videos. (Matthias Hawran) (#619758)
  • Fixed crash when renaming and quickly hitting the Enter key. (#619352)
  • Removed unused DEFAULT_MAX_FILE_SIZE. (#616842)
  • Save the partial result of a cancelled search as well. (#617952)
  • Newly saved search does not immediately show up in the list of catalogs. (#618183)
  • Picasa export dialog too big Maximize on small resolutions (netbook) (Matthias Hawran) (#618262)
  • Set a minimum size for the file viewer to avoid a crash (#618442)
  • Fix some Gtk-CRITICAL messages generated by the list_tools extension (Christophe Bisière) (#618554)
  • Fixed "Overwrite all files" and "Do not overwrite any file" options (#617282)
  • Show a completed dialog after exporting to PicasaWeb. (#616782)
  • Generates thumbnails of on-camera videos much faster. (#617287)
  • Kill the script process as well when stopping the thumb loader (#614219)
  • Make gth_folder_tree_set_children() faster for big file lists (#611115)
  • Fixed crash after saving a crop with width or height of 1px. (Matthias Hawran) (#616454)
  • New or updated application translations:
  • Czech (Marek Černocký)
  • Deutsch (Christian Kirbach)
  • Español (Jorge González)
  • Estonian (Rene Pärts)
  • French (Bruno Brouard)
  • Lietuvių (Aurimas Černius)
  • Low German (Nils-Christoph Fiedler)
  • Punjabi/Panjabi (A S Alam)
  • Slovenian (Andrej Žnidaršič)
  • Thai (Sira Nokyoongtong)
  • New or updated manual translations:
  • Español (Jorge González)
  • Slovenian (Andrej Žnidaršič)

New in gThumb 2.10.11 (Feb 24, 2009)

  • #572342: Better IFD offset checking.
  • #570473: gthumb write to freed memory. Patch by Jerry Tan.
  • #568894: use gtk_widget_get_action (foo), instead of g_object_get_data (foo, "gtk-action").
  • #565708: Fixed default launch-with-gimp hotkey to launch gimp in the background.
  • #563956: Fixed XML comment reading. Modified version of patch by Jef Driesen.
  • #554240: Provide support for the Mac OS X menubar. Modified version of the patch by W. Michael Petullo.
  • #560055: filter problems
  • #551225: Modified the build files to better support gtk on MAC OS / Quartz. Based on a patch by W. Michael Petullo.
  • #560352: Added a new gthumb-import.desktop.in file to handle gvfs-mounted cameras more elegantly. The camera is first unmounted, and the libgphoto import routines are then run. Merged from Ubuntu. Patch by Martin Pitt.
  • #557640: Set pagesize adjustment to zero for spinbuttons, to avoid annoying warnings. Patch by Matthias Clasen.
  • #554149: Terminate "Converting comment system...done" with newline. Patch by Tormod Volden.
  • #555549: The "g" key now launches the "gimp" command, instead of the deprecated "gimp-remote" command. Fix crasher bug in exif tag reading, caused by malformed tiff headers. Ubuntu bug http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316017. Give the photo-import desktop file different name parameters, so that users can distinguish it from the normal desktop file. Ubuntu bug http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/318694.

New in gThumb 2.10.10 (Sep 24, 2008)

  • The configurable ability to hide or show video and audio files was added.
  • XCF images are no longer excluded from the file list.
  • A build problem was resolved.
  • Translations were updated.