Where is “changing the file type extension” in the name?
That has to be Chaotic Evil.
that would be renaming the file extension but keeping the same format opening it up in an app that breaks it totally, then saving that and sharing it with a Windows user and spending an hour with them trying to make it work because they have to see it!!!
You’ll quickly learn which software trusts extensions and which uses MIME type detection
You know who used to do that? Microsoft Teams. I would take photos with my phone and upload them via Teams, Teams would display them just fine but saving them teams would name them .png (even though they were jpeg) and I couldn’t open them with the gnome image viewer (this is also how I found out that the image viewer prioritizes extension over magic byte (which seems stupid to me).
That’s not on the chart because it doesn’t convert it. It only renames it. A JPEG ending with .png is still a JPEG
That’s what the mimetype cult wants you to believe.
One could argue that they have converted it, but it was done poorly.
In a similar sense, the screenshots and phone photos are not conversions. They are entirely new images.
what about recreating the image pixel by pixel from scratch?
Found the embedded systems engineer!
Neutral eldritch
I was expecting to see a hex-editor or something as one of the options.
What’s always missing is nomacs - the best image viewing and light editing toolkit app on linux.
Nobody ever mentions it. Why is that? Why? It supports all the formats. It has the best slideshow options. The UI is as minimal or as informative as you set it to be. WHYYYYYY DOES NOBODY TALK ABOUT IT??? Who paid you to be silenced?
(and yes, it can convert the formats)
https://github.com/nomacs/nomacs
I used it for a long time years ago and it is indeed very great. But its only maintainer stopped around 2021/2022 because he got a new job or something along that line. As far i see he partially returned later but is still looking for more contributors. so the future of the project is not really secure. e.g. see https://github.com/nomacs/nomacs/issues/987
So more eyes on Nomacs would be indeed good.
It’s so crazy to me that guy was unemployed and is spending his days making a high quality software product for free
Doesn’t really seem like the sort of thing that needs regular updates though. Should keep working fine while Qt6 is available.
It reminds me of IrfanView, but I’m sure it’s better than that
Rename file extension to .png
I’m the ffmpeg guy. It’s the pandoc of binary media, except it actually does do everything.
Hmmm. I need to write an PR for converting mardown to jpeg.
What’s it called if you’ve done all of these?
split personality
It’s missing the “take a screenshot on your mobile phone” (which drives me nuts when people do this instead of sending me the link or the original photo).
Look at bottom centre
Edit: I’m getting upvotes but I’m not technically in the right here…
Bottom centre is like taking another phone to photograph the one displayed on your phone.
No wonder it’s pure evil.
Mint has an “Action” for that, what does that make me?
actually lawful good, imagemagick and ffmpeg barely do anything different in this case, and the python script uses imagemagick if I know PIL right
They keep implementing things I did years ago.
you say that like its a bad thing?
