Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: eog (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
HEIF support should be installed by default
Status in eog package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
The HEIF image file format [1] is getting quite popular, mainly
because this is now the default image format for iOS [2].
Unfortunately, this is not supported by default in Ubuntu (20.04). In
practice, this means that if someone sends you a picture from an
iPhone, you won't be able to look at it (and the error message in eog
is just saying this "is not a image", not hinting at all that
installing a small package could solve it).
Therefore, I'd recommend installing by default the following two extra
packages. This is about 60kB:
heif-gdk-pixbuf
heif-thumbnailer
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_Format
[2] https://www.imyfone.com/phone-data-transfer/what-is-iphone-heic/
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