From 7dca028ee3d5d2654ff8e1d756de70dc1f72bcd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcel Straub Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 10:12:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Added documentation of howto add HEIF/HEIC support --- content/docs/client/_index.md | 2 +- content/docs/client/qt_heic_support.md | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 content/docs/client/qt_heic_support.md diff --git a/content/docs/client/_index.md b/content/docs/client/_index.md index 3677fcd..645c9d8 100644 --- a/content/docs/client/_index.md +++ b/content/docs/client/_index.md @@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ categories: - network --- # Operating system -I'm currently using Kubuntu 20.10 as my workstation operating system. +I'm currently using Kubuntu 22.04 LTS as my workstation operating system. How I configured particular parts of it can be found in the subsections. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/docs/client/qt_heic_support.md b/content/docs/client/qt_heic_support.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1ca9aed --- /dev/null +++ b/content/docs/client/qt_heic_support.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +title: QT/KDE Application HEIF/HEIC image format support +#descriptions: empty description +#summary: empty summary +#weight: 2 +categories: +- Photography +tags: +- HEIF/HEIC +- Photos +--- + +# Add HEIF/HEIC support to Kubuntu 22.04 + +Besides my DSLR I also use an iPhone 24 Pro for photography. The native image format of the iPhones is HEIF/HEIC. However, Kubuntu 22.04 LTS does not support HEIF/HEIC image format out-of-the-box. + +## QT/KDE applications + +There exists a good plugin that must be installed from source code to enable format support for all Qt/KDE applications [qt-heic-image-plugin](https://github.com/novomesk/qt-heic-image-plugin). Besides what is noted in the tools [README.md](https://github.com/novomesk/qt-heic-image-plugin/blob/main/README.md), you must also install the relevant dependencies: +```shell +$ apt install \ + build-essential \ + cmake extra-cmake-modules \ + libheif1 libheif-dev +``` +And then proceed with the tool documentation. + +## GTK Applications + +To also enable support for GTK based applications also install: +```shell +$ apt install heif-gdk-pixbuf heif-thumbnailer +```