I downloaded a HEIF image (extension .HEIC) from my icloud account. Its type is:
chris@linux:~/Pictures> file IMG_2489.HEIC
IMG_2489.HEIC: ISO Media
Installed Leap with XFCE as DE (congrats, btw, for such a great out of the box experience!!!)
Got multimedia codecs installed from packman via opi codecs.
As this was not enough to open my image neither with Gimp (Opening ‘/home/chris/Pictures/IMG_2489.HEIC’ failed: Unknown file type), nor with shotwell (Photo source file missing), gThumb, or ristretto, plus not having a thumbnail preview in Thunar, I searched for more heif via zypper and installed the following
linux:/home/chris # zypper se -is heif
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository
---+---------------------------+---------+------------------------------------------+--------+-----------
i+ | gdk-pixbuf-loader-libheif | package | 1.19.5-150600.5.pm.2 | x86_64 | Packman
i+ | gimp-plugin-heif | package | 1.1.0+git20191012.d6bea52-150600.2.pm.10 | x86_64 | Packman
i+ | heif-thumbnailer | package | 1.19.5-150600.5.pm.2 | x86_64 | Packman
i | libheif1 | package | 1.19.5-150600.5.pm.2 | x86_64 | Packman
What am I missing here?
(I know that there is the possibility to convert HEIF images to JPG, but I actually want to transparently use HEIF same as JPG.)