Assigning to eog as per comment #1. ** Package changed: libheif (Ubuntu) => eog (Ubuntu)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to eog in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1886271 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/ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/+bug/1886271/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
