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

[Maik Qualmann]

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...