GNOME Photos

GNOME Photos is an open source application that allows users to easily access, organize and share their photos when using the GNOME desktop environment on any Linux-based operating system.

Initially introduced in the 3.10 release of the GNOME project, the software is now used as the default image organizer of the controversial desktop environment. It should also work with any other environment if all requirements are met.

Features at a glance

With this application, users will be able to view photo collections that are stored locally on the predefined Photos folder inside the Home directory, access photos from attached devices, and view photos stored on online accounts.

In addition, it allows users to access photos that are stored on supported DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) media servers, view new photos shared by their friends, view full screen slideshows of all their photos, as well as to share and upload photos.

Very basic image manipulation functionality, such as delete, print, add to favorites and add to album, is also provided in the GNOME Photos application. In addition, you will also be able to open selected photos in a full featured image viewer, such as Eye of GNOME.

Offers a familiar graphical user interface

The application's user interface is very similar to the GNOME Documents software, except for the fact that you cannot search photos. By default, photos are loaded on-demand, and users have access to the albums, photos and favorites view modes.

Clicking a photo in the Photos view mode will open it in the same window, from where you can navigate back and forward between your photos, or go back to the entire collection. Furthermore, the application allows you to set a photo as the default desktop background.

Bottom line

All in all, GNOME Photos is yet another modern application that follows the GNOME HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) specification and will probably replace existing image viewer apps.

What is new in this release:

• Bugs fixed:
• !44 build: Update the Git submodule URL after GitLab migration
• !45 flatpak: Switch Grilo to Meson
• !49 flatpak: Fix the exiv2 build
• Updated translations:
• French
• German
• Greek
• Lithuanian
• Polish
• Romanian
• Slovenian
• Turkish

What is new in version 3.29.3:

• Unbreak the "Empty Trash" button on GNOME >= 3.24
• Bugs fixed:
• !36 main-window: Update copyright years in the about dialog
• !39 Add OARS and update description to be more confident
• #77 Use g_auto*
• #86 Drop copy-pasted src/egg-*.[ch] code
• #100 tests: Update for renamed application ID
• #105 Delete *.gnome-photos files with XML depicting an empty GEGL graph
• Updated translations:
• Catalan
• Simplified Chinese
• Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
• Croatian
• Czech
• Friulian
• Greek
• Indonesian
• Romanian
• Russian
• Slovenian
• Spanish
• Swedish

What is new in version :

• Support shadows and highlights adjustment (788201)
• Bugs fixed:
• 781736 Items with embedded orientation are slow to load
• 785376 The link "Settings" in the "No Photos Found" screen does not work
• 788174 Use g_auto*
• 789196 Complete support for EXIF orientation values when rendering
• 789977 Log the total processing time for the GeglProcessor
• 791082 Drop unnecessary packed attribute
• Updated translations:
• Croatian
• Czech
• Friulian
• German
• Indonesian
• Norwegian bokmal

What is new in version 3.27.1:

• Clarify that the final binaries are under GPLv3+
• Bugs fixed:
• 763712 Use G_DECLARE_FINAL_TYPE
• 777505 Show a notification when an item has been successfully shared
• 783922 Support GtkGestureZoom for zooming

What is new in version 3.26.0:

• Updated translations:
• Basque
• Croatian
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• Finish
• French
• Friulian
• Galician
• German
• Hungarian
• Indonesian
• Italian
• Korean
• Lithuanian
• Polish
• Portuguese (Brazilian)
• Serbian
• Serbian Latin
• Slovak
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Turkish

What is new in version 3.25.3:

• Support zooming
• Bugs fixed:
• 763712 Use G_DECLARE_FINAL_TYPE
• 764423 Use G_DECLARE_INTERFACE
• 776082 Port PhotosSearchbar to GtkSearchBar
• 778354 photos:insta-curve should support buffers with alpha channel
• 780424 Port widgets to templates
• 782012 Remove the g_auto* macros for GEGL
• Updated translations:
• Friulian
• German
• Indonesian
• Kazakh
• Polish
• Spanish

What is new in version 3.24.2:

• Bugs fixed:
• 778354 photos:insta-curve should support buffers with alpha channel
• Updated translations:
• Gujarati

What is new in version 3.24.0:

• Updated translations:
• Latvian
• Russian

What is new in version 3.23.2:

• Bugs fixed:
• 763712 Use G_DECLARE_FINAL_TYPE
• 764423 Use G_DECLARE_DERIVABLE_TYPE

What is new in version 3.22.2:

• Bugs fixed:
• 770342 item-manager: Avoid CRITICALs when favouriting contents of collections
• 772813 properties-dialog: Don't show the modification status for collections
• Updated translations:
• Simplified Chinese
• Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
• Norwegian bokmal

What is new in version 3.22.1:

• Bugs fixed:
• 771995 SIGILL on Intel Core 2 Duo caused by __builtin_ia32_rdtscp in egg_get_current_cpu_rdtscp()
• 772443 Wrong extension when exporting anything that's not JPEG or PNG
• Updated translations:
• Catalan
• Danish

What is new in version 3.22.0:

• Updated translations:
• Danish
• Gaelic (Scottish)
• Italian
• Persian
• Ukrainian

What is new in version 3.21.3:

• Bugs fixed:
• 760796 Doesn't have a --version flag
• 763908 preview-view: Hold the UI while saving the pipeline
• 764076 application: Add API to prevent the main window from getting destroyed
• Updated translations:
• Catalan
• Gaelic (Scottish)
• Indonesian
• Norwegian bokmal
• Occitan
• Portuguese
• Portuguese (Brazilian)
• Spanish
• Turkish

What is new in version 3.20.1:

• Bugs fixed:
• 763908 base-item: Don't leak the GFileInfos
• Updated translations:
• Catalan
• Chinese (Taiwan)
• Friulian
• Persian
• Polish
• Ukrainian
• Vietnamese

What is new in version 3.19.3:

• Bugs fixed:
• 740434 Be more robust when opening with an external application
• 757363 selection-toolbar: Unbreak printing
• 758227 Crop palette improvements
• 758352 Cropping is broken on HiDpi screens
• 758554 edit-palette, edit-palette-row: Add a vertical accordian effect
• 758809 Use icons in the selection toolbar
• Updated translations:
• Greek
• Kazakh
• Portuguese
• Slovak
• Spanish

What is new in version 3.19.2:

• Experimental editing support
• Bugs fixed:
• 733660 Let photos be deleted from the preview
• 734766 properties-dialog: Be more forgiving of unknown nmm:flash values
• 747446 Fix HiDpi rendering
• 757015 Clicking the favorite button doesn't update the UI immediately
• 757199 Crash when quitting due to the ViewModel outliving the Embed
• 757363 Don't use g_list_length unless we really need to
• Updated translations:
• Czech
• Finnish
• Gaelic (Scottish)
• German
• Hebrew
• Hungarian
• Norwegian bokmA¥l
• Portuguese
• Spanish

What is new in version 3.16.2:

• Bugs fixed:
• 746252 Google album titles appear htmlescaped
• 745972 Update to latest AX_* macros from upstream
• 747696 local-item: Use the trash
• Updated translations:
• Simplified Chinese
• Esperanto
• Icelandic
• Italian
• Slovak

What is new in version 3.16.0:

• Bugs fixed:
• 745756 delete-notification: Improve the message
• 746104 Fix the lifetime of the signal handlers
• 746152 Arrow keys doesn't work after nav buttons auto hide
• Updated translations:
• Basque
• Bosnian
• Catalan
• Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
• Czech
• Danish
• Finnish
• French
• Galician
• German
• Greek
• Hebrew
• Hungarian
• Indonesian
• Japanese
• Kazakh
• Korean
• Lithuanian
• Norwegian bokmA¥l
• Polish
• Portuguese (Brazilian)
• Russian
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Tajik
• Turkish
• Ukrainian

What is new in version 3.15.4:

• Bugs fixed:
• 688566 Replace "Load More" button with edge hit detection
• 736551 empty-results-box: Change text and icon for favorites
• 741590 Allow setting the lock screen background from the preview
• Updated translations:
• Basque
• Czech
• Friulian
• Galician
• Hungarian
• Indonesian
• Portuguese (Brazilian)
• Spanish

What is new in version 3.15.2:

• Bugs fixed:
• 709362 base-item, utils: Use subtler images for loading and failure
• 726505 preview-view: Disable the sliding transition
• 734845 Show a back button while loading a preview
• 737071 Improve our state machine, try to enforce the invariants better and avoid races

What is new in version 3.14.2:

• Bugs fixed:
• 737310 Ensure that icon-only buttons get the 'image-button' style class
• 738527 Fix crash when reading scale factor after window has been destroyed
• Updated translations:
• Dutch
• Friulian
• Italian
• Kazakh
• Latvian
• Persian

What is new in version 3.14.0:

• Bugs fixed:
• 726505 preview-view: Disable the sliding transition
• Updated translations:
• Simplified Chinese
• Czech
• Gaelic (Scottish)
• Greek
• Hungarian
• Korean
• Nepali
• Polish
• Punjabi
• Turkish
• Ukrainian

What is new in version 3.14 RC:

• Bugs fixed:
• 731865 Make it easier to support new sources
• 734762 Drop some deprecated baggage
• 735746 Guard against failure to resolve IDs
• 736186 help: favorites are now marked using a star icon, not a heart icon
• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.14 Beta 2:

• Support accessing photos from PicasaWeb (711563)
• Undo-able deletion of photos and albums (720222)
• Support accessing photos from DLNA media servers (728913)
• Bugs fixed:
• 733011 Add application-specific theme extensions
• 733216 Move the favorites button in the preview to the header bar
• 733850 Stop using GdHeaderButton
• 734398 Missing high contrast icon
• Updated translations:
• Assamese
• Basque
• Catalan
• Catalan (Valencian)
• Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong)
• Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
• Czech
• English (British)
• Galician
• Greek
• Hebrew
• Indonesian
• Japanese
• Lithuanian
• Norwegian bokmA¥l
• Portuguese (Brazilian)
• Romanian
• Russian
• Spanish

What is new in version 3.12.1:

• New user help (711505)
• Bugs fixed:
• 726903 Scale the thumbnails on HiDpi displays
• 726919 Use o.fd.Tracker1.Extract.Priority interface to prioritize relevant types
• 727205 Crash if Facebook credentials expired
• Updated translations:
• Greek
• Slovenian

What is new in version 3.12.0:

• Updated translations:
• Basque
• Danish
• German
• Italian
• Korean
• Polish
• Russian
• Slovak
• Telugu

What is new in version 3.12 RC1:

• Bugs fixed:
• 696802 query-builder: Add additional directories configured in Tracker
• 698941 view-container: Prevent the icons from shifting around
• 725587 Selection and search should be disabled when there are no photos
• 725813 item-manager: Do not crash when a photo is deleted underneath
• 725934 main-toolbar: Add searchbar in selection mode
• 726162 view-model: Reset the count when items are removed
• 726165 overview-searchbar: Refocus the search entry after changing filters
• 726519 Crash when moving from preview to search with a source filter
• Updated translations:
• Catalan
• French
• Hungarian
• Indonesian
• Kazakh
• Korean
• Latvian
• Portuguese
• Punjabi
• Russian
• Serbian
• Ukrainian

Requirements:

• GNOME
• GEGL
• Babl
• GTK+