This is a development (unstable) release of gThumb

Feb 11, 2015 10:00 GMT  ·  By

The famous gThumb image viewer application for the GNOME desktop environment reached version 3.3.3 a few days ago, as announced on GNOME’s announce list by Paolo Bacchilega. This is a development release that brings numerous important changes, which will be part of the forthcoming gThumb 3.4 release.

According to the raw changelog, this development version of gThumb brings better support for the GTK+ 3.14 GUI toolkit improving its interface style. An improved Grayscale tool is also part of gThumb 3.3.3, allowing user to easily preview different filters.

Talking about filters, the unified 'adjust contrast' and 'equalize histogram' tool now displays previews of various contrast filters. Also, some special effects and a curves tool has been implemented in gThumb 3.3.3.

Color profiles can be embedded in JPG files

Moreover, the application is now capable of embedding color profiles in JPG images, and it saves screenshots in the video player component without displaying the save image dialog. Various user interface tweaks have been added, such as the ability to display the new icon on the Gear menu when using GTK+ 3.13 or later, as well as various changes to the Preferences dialog.

Among the bug fixes, we can mention that the application can now be successfully compiled against either of the WebKit2GTK+ 4.0 or WebKit2GTK+ 3.0 libraries, support for uploading images to Flickr has been restored, and the built-in video player component no longer hides the mediabar when the volume control is in use.

Last but not least, various translations have been updated, including Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Finnish, Indonesian, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, and Swedish. The Argentinian manual translation has also been updated.

The source package of the gThumb 3.3.3 application can be downloaded right now from Softpedia, or you can wait for it to appear on the main software repositories of your GNU/Linux distribution.