[digiKam-users] recognise .hif files as heif format

[Maik Qualmann]

KF5 Plasma also supports HIF as HEIF image format, I add it to the database.

Maik

Am Donnerstag, 30. Juni 2022, 22:28:58 CEST schrieben Sie:
> I'm in the process of patching it for digiKam-8.0.0. However, the extension
> HIF is not an official extension for HEIF. The extension actually stands for
> a program "Quicken". So I won't add it as an auto-detected mime type. Or do
> you think otherwise, Gilles?
> 
> Maik
> 
> Am Donnerstag, 30. Juni 2022, 22:19:25 CEST schrieb Gilles Caulier:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Please report this as a new entry in bugzilla. The HEIf plugin is not
> > the only where we need to patch for HIF support as an extension...
> > 
> > https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided&product=digikam
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > 
> > Gilles Caulier
> > 
> > Le jeu. 30 juin 2022 à 17:10, Michael Kefeder <m.kefeder at gmail.com> a
> > écrit
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I just tried digikam 7.7.0 on macOS and I want to add .HIF files to be
> > > loaded by the HEIF loader plugin. Any hints on how to go about this?
> > > 
> > > I added HIF to the mimetype settings, but that doesn't help. Renaming a
> > > .hif file to .heif makes them show (however my camera sticks to the
> > > ancient 8.3 filename pattern, hence uses .hif and I prefer not to having
> > > to rename my files)
> > > 
> > > I dug around the source code a bit, changing
> > > core/dplugins/dimg/heif/dimgheifplugin.cpp typeMimes() to also return
> > > HIF
> > > in the string looks like a solution. Is that what's needed, or is there
> > > another way?
> > > 
> > > thanks in advance
> > > 
> > >  Mike
> > > 
> > > p.s.: It's great that you offer HEIF support, thanks! The commercial
> > > competition does not, and seemingly isn't even working on it...