Phototonic - Image viewer and organizer

daf666 · 2014-03-09 20:25:38

Hi All;

Phototonic is a fast and functional image viewer and organizer, inspired by the traditional image viewer design (i.e. thumbnails and viewer layouts).
Phototonic developed in C++/Qt and released under GNU General Public License v3.

Home page: http://oferkv.github.io/phototonic/

AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0 … _Search=Go

Bugs/Requests: https://github.com/oferkv/phototonic/issues

Screen shots:

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skualito · 2014-03-12 17:53:47

I like it so far, I find phototonic simple and efficient. Is there a way to customize the keyboard shortcuts?
Thank you for sharing!

daf666 · 2014-03-12 20:15:57

@skualito: Thanks.
Currently not (only by recompiling).
I guess customizing the shortcuts is inevitable, Opened a new issue: https://github.com/oferkv/phototonic/issues/22

ninian · 2014-03-12 23:33:09

Already does quite a lot in a tiny package!
Other features I'd look for: zoom to original size; and in context menu: show image information; 'open with ...' (associated with MIME-type and/or customisable?)
Will watch its development with interest ... many thanks for making it available.
:-)

orschiro · 2014-03-13 05:55:10

@daf666

How does your Phototonic compare to Shotwell?

daf666 · 2014-03-13 17:58:56

@ninian: Thanks!
"Zoom to original" option already there, "image info" an existing issue, opened a new issue for "open with".

@orschiro: I am not too familiar with Shotwell.

orschiro · 2014-03-14 06:14:43

It's indeed very fast. Thanks!

Do you plan to add tagging of pictures?

daf666 · 2014-03-14 13:34:02

@orschiro: Thanks! Yep, issue #17 (tagging).

daf666 · 2014-03-21 19:55:30

@skualito: keyboard shortcuts customization is now implemented, enjoy

skualito · 2014-03-21 20:27:43

daf666 wrote:

@skualito: keyboard shortcuts customization is now implemented, enjoy

That's cool !!

daf666 · 2014-03-28 11:40:17

@ninian FYI Added a basic "Open With" option. Also now image info is displayed in the status bar when selecting a thumb.

ninian · 2014-03-28 15:53:38

daf666 wrote:

@ninian FYI Added a basic "Open With" option. Also now image info is displayed in the status bar when selecting a thumb.

Ah, thank you! Will look forward to testing it out when I get back to my Arch system tomorrow.
;-)

orschiro · 2014-03-30 07:54:04

@daf666

Have a look at the discussion on Reddit!

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ … nizer_for/

daf666 · 2014-03-30 16:47:30

@orschiro: hehe... cool

nojan · 2014-04-16 10:22:20

Very nice and lightweight tool!
Any chance of EXIF parsing/display?

daf666 · 2014-04-16 13:38:37

Thanks nojan
I am opening an issue for EXIF support. This is mostly for displaying image information (that was embedded in the image during taking the shot by the camera), and also rotating the image automatically yes?
Phototonic will have to include an additional lib to support this (not supported by Qt by default).
I am not sure if this means crossing the line between "light" and "not so light"... What do others think about this?

progandy · 2014-04-16 13:46:05

daf666 wrote:

Thanks nojan
I am opening an issue for EXIF support. This is mostly for displaying image information (that was embedded in the image during taking the shot by the camera), and also rotating the image automatically yes?
Phototonic will have to include an additional lib to support this (not supported by Qt by default).
I am not sure if this means crossing the line between "light" and "not so light"... What do others think about this?

libexif is about 2MB, exiv2 about 4MB (supports iptc, too) Then you have three options to include it.
1) create a plugin interface and use a plugin , then using libexif as optdepend is possible
2a) simply hardcode it
2b) hardcode it, but make it a compile-time switch with defines.

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nojan · 2014-04-16 19:23:44

daf666 wrote:

Thanks nojan
I am opening an issue for EXIF support. This is mostly for displaying image information (that was embedded in the image during taking the shot by the camera), and also rotating the image automatically yes?

That is precisely what I meant The photographer in me likes to be able to check things aperture and shutter when browsing images. Automagic rotation is of course nice to.

My vote is on a compile time switch to make it optional in a clean, uncluttered way.

daf666 · 2014-04-18 13:13:48

Thanks guys, this is helpful. I think I will go with the smaller lib or which ever is more common. As for implementation, something like "View->show EXIF info" that will show a panel with all relevant data and switches.

daf666 · 2014-05-05 16:15:15

Good news nogan, preliminary Exif support is now available, heres a taste:

Use the Git AUR phototonic package to install: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/phototonic-git/

Please gimme feedback.

I am planning to add a filtering line for tags, save capability and tags.
exiv2 is now a dependency because Tags will be a main feature...

Tristelune · 2014-05-06 11:36:27

Hello,

thank you for this interesting project! I'm interested in an image viewer
and organizer which is independend of a desktop environment. Unfortunately
I have a lot of pictures in cr2 format. Any chance to have support for that format ?

daf666 · 2014-05-07 16:35:59

@Tristelune: Sure, added issue for supporting additional formats.

Tristelune · 2014-05-10 13:34:44

Thank you very much! I'll wait until the raw format will be supported. After that I'll consider to use Phototonic.
I'm eager to test it!

daf666 · 2014-05-17 16:34:25

Good news everyone! v0.99 is released.
Note that Exiv2 is now a dependency (This is a must, in order to retain image metadata when editing and saving images).

V0.99 highlights:
Exif support (with automatic image rotation option).
File name filtering option.
Images can now be rotated freely to any angle.
New Image and Copy and Paste image data options.
File system tree and Image Info panes can be removed or docked.
Other bug fixes...

nojan · 2014-06-03 18:28:28

Latest version is really nice! The EXIF support is just what I wanted, great job!

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