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. Besides what is noted in the tools README.md, you must also install the relevant dependencies:

$ 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:

$ apt install heif-gdk-pixbuf heif-thumbnailer