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Tichau / FileConverter

File Converter is a very simple tool which allows you to convert and compress files using the context menu in windows explorer.
https://file-converter.io/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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If this project is abandoned, how can we improve it as a community? #254

Closed xx88xx closed 6 months ago

xx88xx commented 2 years ago

Obviously a lot has changed since 2017. There are a lot of potential fixes and upgrades that could help a lot of people.

For 1, adding native window 11 support in the 1st menu... instead of the second.

I also find the the ico file conversion shrinks the image size right down, while other ico converters maintain the size of the original image.

How can we improve this project as a community? do we take into our own hands? the developer I feel has abandoned it?

agret commented 2 years ago

I'm not sure why you think it hasn't changed since 2017, there's a few commits over 2021 and a pull request was merged in 2022.

Since the maintainer is still active any improvements you want to make can be made as a pull request and he should merge it in.

https://github.com/Tichau/FileConverter/commits/integration

Cwpute commented 2 years ago

But if i'm not mistaken... there hasn't been any new version available for the public since 2017. Has it ? https://github.com/Tichau/FileConverter/releases

Tichau commented 8 months ago

Hello everyone, You're rigth I did not put a lot of time maintaining this project in the past year. I try to merge stuff from the community when it is proposed in pull requests. I did not find the time to make any proper stabilization and release process since 2017, but I'm currently planning to do a version with all the improvements and fixes from the past years. Any help whould be very appreciated!

Cwpute commented 8 months ago

Thanks a lot for your answer! I'm nwt sure i'll be able to help since i don't have much experience with coding. But if you need some help with things that don't require such skills, i can lend a hand. Please do tell us vhat needs to be done :)

Tichau commented 6 months ago

I'll close all discussions now that there is a space for that in GitHub: https://github.com/Tichau/FileConverter/discussions