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Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG) Support in File Explorer #5867

Open JamesAndersonJr opened 4 years ago

JamesAndersonJr commented 4 years ago

šŸ“ Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG) Support in File Explorer

Expected Behavior:

File Explorer should display a thumbnail and preview image for all animated PNG (.apng) files in a given directory. While the image is NOT explicitly selected, File Explorer should initially display the .apng file as a static image (though still with full transparency support), just as an ordinary .png image. However, when the user mouses over the image, or selects it, File Explorer should display a short preview of the .apng animation, if any.

NOTE: Displaying animation previews for .apng images should be fully toggle-able (on|off) in PowerToys settings menu, in the event that they become too "busy" to the user, or they simply want to turn the functionality off.

More Info: Wikipedia: Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG)

Sample animated PNG attached (change '.png' extension to '.apng' to test functionality) .

Animated_PNG_example_bouncing_beach_ball

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xan2622 commented 3 years ago

Is .apng widely used ?

If it gets implemented, I hope that it would be considered to support .webm file previews in Explorer (many websites and web browsers already support this file type).

.webp previews are already supported on Windows 10's Explorer but they load slowly (at least here, on my PC).

https://www.webmproject.org/

ahykono commented 2 years ago

Is .apng widely used ?

Personally I believe it is used widely, I also use it a lot more than .gif but the thought of WIndows not being capable of sorting out .png and .apng due to the inability of applications to negotiate for both extensions, or distinguish between both extensions after being received... Orso I heard, is terrible.

I seeked for a while for programs that would be able to personally solve that problem and happily be able to use it on Windows Explorer itself however the only way to see an .apng file format is basically by just downloading a software to view the file format or to open it on any browser.

Though I doubt doing something like this would pose a problem to Microsoft, personally I believe they just did not want to add a support for it and let people stick with what's left available.