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

[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...