What’s new
- Back and Forward history per tab: each tab keeps its own view history, so Back and Forward step through the images it has shown, including TIFF and archive pages. History follows files you rename.
- Close Image: close the current image without closing the application or tab (#443).
- Keywords in Image Information: view, edit and copy an image’s
keywordstag (#432). - Respect folder structure inside archives: a new Settings option, on by default. Archive pages in several folders open in folder order (
Volume 01/001.jpgbeforeVolume 02/001.jpg) instead of interleaved. - Hide the gallery in large folders (settings file only, off by default): set
HideGalleryAtFileCountto hide the gallery in folders with at least that many files (#394).
Improvements
Gallery
- The gallery opens centered on the current image.
- With
Side-by-sideon, both images of the pair are highlighted in the gallery. - Slow scrolling adds up instead of snapping back.
- Gallery loads use less memory and read file details more cheaply, so large folders load faster.
- Copying an image from the gallery copies the original full-size image, not the thumbnail.
Archives
- A corrupt page is skipped instead of failing the whole archive.
- An archive overtaken by another while loading no longer leaves its extracted files behind.
- Renaming an archive in its folder keeps its history entries.
- The “Always uncompress entire archive folder” setting is removed. Extraction is now always staged. Old settings files still load.
Windows and layout
- Resize and Convert windows remember where they were closed, like the other tool windows.
- A remembered window position is applied only if the window overlaps a screen, instead of being moved to the top-left corner.
- Escape closes Image Information, Batch Resize and Resize again while a number box has focus.
- AutoFit windows:
- Turning AutoFit on places the window the same way a resize does.
- A natively maximized window stays where it is after a resize.
- A window that starts fullscreen moves to its screen’s origin, so the taskbar does not cover it (Windows).
- Screen Margin changes apply to every open window at once. A negative Screen Margin from an older settings file is corrected.
- The start-up menu opens at a size that shows the full logo.
- Hover bar: easier to reveal over a docked gallery. A hover bar that can’t fade in no longer takes clicks.
- The File History and Favorites menu no longer blinks or jumps back to the top when opened.
Settings and keybindings
- Gallery keyboard navigation has moved to contextual actions:
- Up and Down in Normal mode scroll an image taller than the window. When nothing else claims them, they keep rotating the image.
- When the gallery is expanded, Up, Down, Left and Right navigate the gallery.
- Left and Right (A/D) go to the previous or next image.
- Keybind files are migrated to settings version 3.1. Your custom keybinds are kept, and the default Left and Right keybinds are added.
- The “Show docked gallery when UI is hidden” setting is removed.
Fixes
- Renaming no longer silently overwrites an existing file. The rename is refused with “A file with that name already exists”, and the dialog stays open. Case-only renames still work.
- The rename dialog selects the name without its extension (#439).
- Renaming a shown image in Explorer keeps its zoom and rotation. The title shows its real size instead of 0 × 0.
- Saving an image that is both flipped and turned a quarter turn (once or three times) now matches what you see. Before, it was written 180° off.
- The zoom percentage popup shows the new image’s percentage.
- A new image in a background tab no longer resets the zoom of the tab you are looking at. A tab that loaded its image in the background fits it correctly when you switch to it.
- Image Information updates correctly when you switch between tabs. It shows dimensions for clipboard, base64 and URL images, and clears them on a blank tab.
- Open last file now opens the last file reliably.
- An archive image that finishes loading late no longer replaces the one you moved to.
- The background is applied at startup again (#444).
- Two Main Windows: resizing one no longer shows or hides the other’s title bar and bottom bar buttons.
- Fixed unintentional empty horizontal scroll with middle mouse button scrolling when
AutoFitis enabled. - Detaching tabs into new windows now previews and drops at the given size from the origin window.
- Don't save window position when minimized and don't start the window outside of visible screen area (441).
Misc
Languages
- Korean translation updated by @VenusGirl in #433.
- Danish wording for the archive setting improved. Keyword strings translated.
Internal updates
- Updated
Avaloniato 12.1.5 - Updated
Magick.NETto 15.1.0 - Updated
Magick.NET.AvaloniaMediaImagingto 2.0.1
New Contributors
- @menes97 made their first contribution in Ruben2776/PicView#445
Full Changelog: 5.2.0.1...5.2.2