Release Date: 2026-04-24
QuickView v5.3.0 focuses on improving UI consistency, refining user interaction, and ensuring a clean system footprint.
We have migrated the remaining UI icons to the GeekIcon vector engine.
- Improved Consistency: Icons are now rendered using Direct2D paths, ensuring they look the same across different Windows versions and DPI settings.
- Font Dependency Removed: The application no longer relies on specific icon fonts for its core interface.
- Deep Uninstallation: Added a new
--uninstallflag for comprehensive registry (HKCU) and application data cleanup. - Improved Installer: The Inno Setup installer now automatically purges legacy
.oldfiles and the AppData folder upon removal, ensuring a zero-footprint uninstallation. - WinGet Automation: Optimized the submission pipeline to use standard installers, resolving previous validation issues and improving accessibility via
winget install QuickView. - Default Photo Viewer: Enhanced support for Windows 11 "Default Apps" settings via full Capability registration.
- Frame Counter (#167): Added a basic frame index display to the animation progress bar for GIF and WebP files.
- Hand Cursor Panning (#160): Added a hand cursor when dragging images that are larger than the window.
- Thumb Wheel Support (#156): Added support for vertical/horizontal mouse thumb wheels.
- Zoom Cycle: Refined the zoom hotkey/double-click behavior to cycle through common scaling modes.
- Luminance Handling (#131): We have adjusted how peak luminance is detected on HDR monitors by prioritizing system-level reports. Note: This is an initial attempt to address "washed out" colors, and we are still evaluating its effectiveness across different hardware.
A special thank you to the users who helped test this release:
- @bananakid, @PYCHBI, @lrbin50, @1kari-s, @Battler624, and @toxieainc for their bug reports, technical insights, and for sharing HDR testing resources.
We appreciate your continued support in helping us refine QuickView.