Samsung Gallery: Direct delete/undo and JPEG XL support

[golemus]

Can somebody forward these feature requests to Samsung Gallery development team?

(I have Galaxy S21FE Finland edition).

Direct delete/undo

- when you press delete button in pic it should be one touch action so that picture gets instantly deleted but there comes a hovering undo button. It was like this in my former phone (Oneplus 5) and it is best solution for fast deletion of pics (this feature is needed often!) but still having the option for easy undo if you press the delete button accidentally.

JPEG XL (JXL) support

- Galaxy gallery does not yet recognize JXL files. Everything else important (webp, avif) seems to be recognized. JXL (among with avif) is becoming common very fast and is pic format of the future and it is absurd that the gallery does not see them even if some open source galleries (such as Fossify) do see them.



Couple of more feature requests:

- there should be setting/option to enable "show filename" at bottom of screen (without pulling up for the whole more info screen).

[johnz237]

Hi! Welcome to the samsung members community!

Youre posting in a forum for customers with the same abilities as you.

You can do it- go to samsung members app- support- feedback

[arianwen27]

I've never actually had a program produce or use a jpeg xl formatted image before. The camera app doesn't take them and apps don't produce them. I kinda think jpeg xl is a lot more rare and obscure than you think it is. I know about it and all the things it can do, it's just not many things actually use it.

Modern phones are moving to heic files instead. Seems heic won the battle over next image codec

[Piper123]

I certainly would NOT want to delete in this way.

So many come on here dating they deleted accidentally.

I would 100% vote against such an idea.

[golemus]

You don't have to use it. In galleries which have it is a setting "delete without confirmation". You first have to enable that setting (if you want it).

And nothing is deleted it goes to recycle bin and the purpose of "undo delete" popup is that you can easily reverse the action if you pressed the button accidentally.

[golemus]

heic is actually a dying format. In reality everything else than Apple + some other brand smartphone cameras are avoiding heic like a plague because it has too expensive license fees. When support is implemented it is subpar and not optimized like free formats such as avif.

Heic is there because heic is h265 video frame and modern phones have h265 hardware encoders. h265 is best that is currenly available for smartphone hardware.

It will most likely change inside 5 years when av1 hardware encoders come for smartphones, at that stage heic is finito (unless there is some major change in heic/h265 licensing policies which seems AFAIK unlikely)

[golemus]

Also JPEG XL is newest of the listed formats, that is why it has still limited support but in many ways it is the best and most advanced. If you need really hard compressed files then AVIF beats it but JXL encoding is like 3-5 times faster than AVIF/AV1 (unless there is a hardware encoder).