Maintenance release

Bumps all dependencies to the most recent version

Maintenance release

Bumps all dependencies to the most recent version

Reorder pinned folders

You can now finally reorder the pinned folders to your liking! Before they were simply sorted alphabetically, but now with the arrow buttons above the folders and the Ctrl+W/S shortcuts respectively, you can move pinned folders up and down in the list.

Changelog

• Added: Pinned folders can be reordered

Maintenance release

Changelog

• Updated: All dependencies have been updated to the latest version
• Improved: The dark mode toggle button is now a little more pleasant to look at when pressed

Visual improvements and windows that stay where you left them

Changelog

• Improved: The UI's look has been improved in various ways
• Added: Window position, size and state is saved and restored across sessions
• Fixed: DPI is not being factored when deciding where to place images
• Fixed: The keybindings window is not opened on the correct screen
• Fixed: Sometimes file path comparison does not recognize both paths being equal because paths with different casing are being returned by the system. This can lead to many things, but most commonly an image being displayed twice despite there actually still being only one image.

Rebindable keys

Now you can open the new dedicated settings window to change the key bindings of the actions. Don't like the default bindings? Just change it!

In addition there is a dedicated window for accessing and changing key bindings, functioning not just as a way to quickly change them, but also put them on the side as a cheat sheet!

Due to a change of how settings are stored all settings will be reset, but until now there were only three settings (dark mode, whether to check for updates and whether to install prerelease builds). So the loss isn't that big.

Changelog

• Added: New dedicated settings window
• Added: Key bindings can be rebound
• Added: Key bindings can be accessed in settings and in a dedicated window
• Changed: Settings are now stored in '%AppData%\Roaming\Image Sort\config.json'

Making pinned folders more useful

Now pinned folders are sorted alphabetically. This should make the overview of where to search for an pinned folder easier.

Also, pinned folders are now indexed faster and and in the background, therefore not blocking the user interface anymore. This way huge folders are indexed way faster. However, it is not recommended to open folders with a lot of sub-folders, like C: drive levels of sub-folders. Don't do it, it will fill your RAM up in no time! This is particularly in the Microsoft Store version, as it is currently 32-bit only due to technical problems with Microsoft's packaging mechanism.

Changelog

• Added: Pinned folders are saved persistently
• Added: Pinned folders are sorted alphabetically
• Added: Folders are being indexed in the background and in parallel
• Added: Folder-indexing does not block the UI anymore

Visual and stability improvements

Changelog

• Changed: Middle section of the window has been improved
• Changed: Old dialogs have been replaced with modern equivalents
• Added/Fixed: Instead of silently crashing, damaged or otherwise inaccessible images are now being displayed as such
• Fixed: Crash when moving, deleting or renaming a file where that is not possible (f.e. file does not exist anymore)
• Fixed: Crash when undoing/redoing an action that isn't possible anymore (f.e. file does not exist anymore)

Looking towards the future and leaving old problems behind

This release is an entire new rewrite of Image Sort from scratch. It doesn't just give you a more flexible model for sorting images, but makes you even faster than before.

Among the new things is the ability to pin folders, as well as going through the images freely in a gallery structure.

Try it out yourself! On the README page the new model for controlling Image Sort is explained. It's really simple and shouldn't be hard to get up to speed with!

Changelog

This changelog is not exhaustive

• FULL REWRITE
• Added: New UI
• Added: You can now move through images freely in a gallery structure
• Added: Folders and sub-folders are accessible in a tree structure
• Added: All file system impacting actions can easily be undone
• Added: Folders can be pinned, allowing for you to for example open your camera and sort it's images to your pictures folder
• Added: You can search for images.
• Added: A new control scheme leading to a lot of more productivity and way faster sorting

Removed:

• For now, you cannot search through folders. This is very likely to be added back later.
• For now, there is no integrated help. This has minor priority to me as I do not know whether anyone actually used that feature. Maybe it was only annoying(?). I begin to see the advantages of analytics but don't worry, I won't add it for now, and even if, I would make it explicitly opt-in with no commercial use. But for now that's just fancy talk and isn't unlikely to be forgotten by me.

Localization for everyone*

* Lolle2000la inc. does not guarantee more languages than English and German.

Jokes aside, this release adds a German localization and, more importantly, includes the facilities for more languages to be added in the future.

With this change, other languages could be added. Now I only have to find someone who can help me localize, since I can only do English and German myself. Currently there are no easy facilities to contribute on that front yet, but I will look into it.

On the smaller note, now the current folder is highlighted by being bold, hopefully making it easier to understand what its meaning is.

Changelog

• Added: German localization
• Added: Selected folder is highlighted
• Fixed: Sometimes images were added twice despite under the hood them still being only one
• Fixed: Race condition leads to crashes