Hi.

Most new smartphones procude natively HEIC images (and only
convert to JPEG, when an option is selected to do so on
sharing).

eog cannot display these unless heif-gdk-pixbuf is installed.


Perhaps it makes sense to recommend/suggest that.
Or maybe even alternatively or in addition in some higher
level GNOME metapackage?

If the latter is choosen, then heif-thumbnailer should
perhaps also be recommended (and/or in nautilus?).


Depending on what you go for, I'd then ask the cinnamon packagers
to do the same (in their metapackages and/or nemo).


Thanks,
Chris.

Control: tags -1 +wontfix

There are patent concerns with libheif so I personally would rather
not install it by default. Sorry.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha

Well then Suggest - doesn't get installed per default.

Cheers,
Chris.

Oh and btw:

There won't be much formats where not some pool, troll, etc. claims it
would held some IP one it.

If you go by that you can also drop any AV1 support, cause there's also
folks out there claiming they'd held patents for that.


Cheers,
Chris.

Hi,

I faced HEIC for the first time today, and could not open them with eog.
My first move was to check the list of "suggests" for eog, and couldn't
find anything relevant. Only after looking it up on the web I installed
heif-gdk-pixbuf and got it working fine.

My point is, would you maybe reconsider adding heif-gdk-pixbuf as
Suggests for eog ?

Although I understand there might be patent concerns, I believe
"Suggests" is exactly the correct level of dependency, as it enhances
the functionalities of eog, but it is perfectly fine not to install them
: (Debian Policy 7.2) "Using this field tells the packaging system and
the user that the listed packages are related to this one and can
perhaps enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without
them is perfectly reasonable."

Best regards,
Bertrand