For a software developer, no feature if free. Some, like this one, are relatively low-cost (unlike adding the patent and royalty nightmare of HEIC, at least for commercial software). On the other hand, there are occasionally feature requests which are free and important to to which DxO just can’t get around: Add ‘Deselect All’ Filtering option in Image Browser. The inability to deselect all filters in the image browser has been plaguing DxO Photolab users since at least Photolab 2.
Adding a simple ‘Deselect All’ option would be:
- extremely easy
- beneficial to all Photolab users
Instead of DxO are holding us hostage to a new and “reimagined” image browser to add basic functionality. Support for additional experimental file formats does have a real coding support cost and questionable benefits. I’d prefer DxO took the easy wins first.
If JXL flourishes, by all means though. Sounds like a good idea.