Hey everyone,
a new version of Aspect has been released: 1.0.0-preview.2. You’ll find the download links at the bottom of this post. Simply install over the existing installation to upgrade. The following changes and additions are included:
New features
- Added an “open file” menu entry to be able to open one or more files with the default application (#346)
- Added a new search expression to the search bar to find missing files
- To use it, type “missing” and choose the “STATUS|missing” suggestion
- Custom window frames can now be forced to be disabled to allow manually working around Intel driver issues (#402)
- Saved searches can now be deleted
- Added Cmd+, as the default shortcut to open the settings dialog on macOS (archived forum topic)
- Added a German translation for the installer
Enhancements
- Reworked the library creation dialog
- Library name and location are now on a separate page from the library structure configuration
- Instead of two example trees, a single dynamically generated one is used
- Custom structures for events or individual photos are now set up on the same page
- Added a few more pre-defined organization schemes
- Improved focus behavior and graphical representation throughout the application (#407, archived forum topic)
- Show in explorer/finder now selects all chosen files in explorer/finder windows
- Improved the Windows installer experience
- Adds an option to launch the application after the installation
- Adds desktop and quick launch icons
- Improves the information displayed in the “add/remove features” control panel
- The library list in the menu is now sorted alphabetically
- Improved the display of shortened paths
- Displays an icon in front of the path, if it originates from the user’s home folder
- Uses drive letters instead of volume names on Windows
- Semantic search expressions (e.g. ISO rating) are now matched case insensitively
- The year of events is now shown in the search bar
- Improved the wording of the import menu of the folder browser page
- Improved text and dark icon visibility the local context bar
- Improved the visibility of text in event headers
- The pre-defined star-rating saved searches are now displayed with star-shaped icons instead of text
Bug fixes
- Fixed the language of the menu bar on macOS (#408, archived forum topic)
- Fixed saving of changed keywords in the metadata editor (archived forum topic)
- Fixed display of some special characters in the shortcut editor
- Fixed thumbnails disappearing after large images have been viewed at 100% zoom
- Increases the default thumbnail RAM cache size from 0.5 GB to 1.5 GB
- Existing installations with this problem need to manually increase the size through the settings dialog
- Fixed the wrong item being selected after going back from details view to thumbnail view
- Fixed the keyboard focus leaving the center pane after switching between thumbnail and details view
- Fixed the search bar to properly display and find the favorites collection
- Pinned collections are now properly removed from the pinned section upon deletion
- Fixed the import modal sheets to actually be modal and get the keyboard focus (#280)
- Zooming using the mouse wheel/two finger scrolling now only works if the ctrl/cmd key is pressed (#241)
- Fixed duplicate files appearing if the same import is run twice in parallel
- Fixed recursive auto-imports to not replicate the source folder structure within the library
- Fixed an issue where the thumbnail cache size was too low after restart, if configured above 4GB
- Fixed the appearance of section captions in the film strip (#417)
- Fixed a crash happening when attempting to toggle the journal visibility of a file that is not in the library (#405, archived forum topic)
- Fixed a logic error occurring when attempting to delete events that are stored outside of the library (“referenced”) (#400)
- Fixed an issue where individual photo folders were recognized as events after an application crash
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Feel free to leave any feedback here or in the bug reports sub forum. Thanks for helping to shape a new way of organizing photos!