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thunar-apr: HEIC files are not supported

Version information

Thunar 4.21.0-dev-3b6b715c

Steps to reproduce

  • Open the properties dialog of a .heic file, sample.heic
  • Go to the Image tab

Current behavior

  • There is no metadata info

Expected outcome

  • There should be some metadata info

Thunar APR relies on libexif which does not support HEIC yet, see this issue. One alternative is to use exiv2, but their support for BMFF files is disabled by default.

Before I invest time adding exiv2 support to Thunar APR, I would to like hear whether this makes sense, I imagine some distros (Debian?) don't enable BMFF support for their exiv2 packages.