Hello Abe, Sorry for the late response.
eog uses gdk-pixbuf as backend library for image decoding. Adding (simple) HEIF support requires writing a loader plugin for gdk-pixbuf that handles the file format (e.g. by using a given decoding library) and manually assigning eog as viewer for the given file type. However, while HEIF itself is just a container, the HEIC pictures from the Apple phones use the HEVC algorithm for compressing the actual image data. HEVC is a heavily patented algorithm, which would as far as I know require Ubuntu/Fedora to pay licensing fees if they'd include it in their distributions. So I wouldn't count on HEIF/HEIC/HEVC (too many abbreviations!) support in major distributions soonish. Regards, Felix Am Mittwoch, den 01.11.2017, 16:00 -0500 schrieb Abe Voelker: > Hello, > With the release of iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra, Apple began > allowing users to save pictures formatted as HEIF files (on my phone, > named with a .heic file extension): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hig > h_Efficiency_Image_File_Format > > On my Ubuntu install, it seems that Eye of GNOME (version 3.18.2) > cannot open these files. Just wondering if there are any plans to > support them? > > Thanks! > Abe
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