Plugins and Addons

[Roger27]

I'm hesitating to create a new thread but...
Plugin and linux.
Ok, Linux is GPL, not LGPL or something like that, and that's the reason why it is not possible to put heic in xnviewmp linux.

Just curious.
If I take a look at the plugin in XnviewMP plugin, I get links to somethingblabla.so stuff.
I have somewhere on my system some "libheif.so.something".
Let's say I put a link or a copy of libheif.so.something in /opt/XnView/Plugins/, is my computer going to explode ? Or Xnview being able to use heic?
-edit- : I gonna try
Edit : I tried but nothings happen. Don't even know if xnview aknowledge if the plugin is there. Maybe I should first read how to create xnview plugin for linux...?

[xnview]

I'm hesitating to create a new thread but...
Plugin and linux.
Ok, Linux is GPL, not LGPL or something like that, and that's the reason why it is not possible to put heic in xnviewmp linux.

XnView MP on linux supports HEIC if libheif is installed

[brst]

XnView MP on linux supports HEIC if libheif is installed

On Linux Mint you need to install libheif-dev:

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apt install libheif-dev

It took me a long time to figure it out, but I'm glad it works now!

[igor88]

is it possible at all to create plugin that can sort folder by size\file count?

[cmaillebouis]

Pour les déburants en linux, il me semble qu'avec ce codage ce serait mieux :

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sudo apt install libheif-dev

[michel038]

You can enable default settings for ExifTool using a hidden configuration file. It's called .ExifTool_config

If you place this .ExifTool_config file into the AddOn folder (located inside your XnView MP installation directory), ExifTool will automatically apply these settings every time it is called by XnView MP.

For anyone looking to dive deeper into metadata with ExifTool, I recommend adding the following content to your config file:

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@Image::ExifTool::UserDefined::Arguments = (
'-s',
'-a',
'-u',
); 

-a (Allow duplicate tags): Ensures that all metadata tags are displayed, even if they have duplicate names in different groups.

-s (Short tag names): Displays the actual, unmodified tag names used by ExifTool (instead of the descriptive labels), making it much easier if you need to write ExifTool command lines later.

-a (Unknown tags): Displays unknown tags