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Pinta can't open BMP files
Description Pinta can't open BMP files; when trying to open a file, BMP files are not shown in a directory when "images" is selected, and are shown only when "all files formats" is selected. Then, when trying to open a BMP file, there is an error message "file format not taken into account". Opening BMP format was formerly available in Pinta 2.1.1 (AppImage). So, bug or enhancement?
To Reproduce Try to open a BMP file.
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Version Pinta Flatpak 3.01, operating system Linux Mint 21.3 Mate based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
Regards,
MN
I don't think this was changed intentionally - most of the supported image formats are provided through the Gdk.Pixbuf library, so this is likely specific to which pixbuf loaders are included by default in the flatpak package's environment We should test the snap package too, but if it's specific to the flatpak package this should be moved over to https://github.com/flathub/com.github.PintaProject.Pinta/issues
I checked, the snap has .bmp - but misses a few more modern ones the screenshot above shows for Flatpak.
bmp is in the Glycin libraries so for the Flatpak I imagine this would be resolved by rebasing it on Gnome 49; with the snap being variable per comments elsewhere; but already has this specific format.
I've moved this to https://github.com/flathub/com.github.PintaProject.Pinta/issues/55 since it's a packaging issue specific to Flatpak