Issues with GIF search

[essenciary]

This is very cool, thanks for adding. However, there are a few issues (DMS + Niri + Catchy).
1/ there are no previews of the images
2/ copying the images as GIF or WEBP and pasting eg into Whatsapp only pastes a frame

[bbedward]

It requires qt6-imageformats , which should be flagged by dms doctor now

[bbedward]

And the paste, may be whatsapp specific, it might be requesting image/png instead of the correct mime-type, I'd check if its only whatsapp specific

[essenciary]

@bbedward Thank you for the info

I just updated the plugin and now it renders correctly. The doctor says I've got qt6-imageformats but I don't know if I've had it before or something installed it recently -- or if it's related to the plugin update.

Good point re whatsapp, it's app specific, Slack works fine.

Curious if the Whatsapp issue impacts all the users. The only format that works in Whatsapp is mp4 but this is uploaded as a video so it doesn't autoplay. This is awkward in Slack and others, so essentially it requires changing format depending on where we plan to drop the "gif".

Feature suggestion: allow dynamic overwriting of the format, ex the search format could be ;mp4:lolcats - the plugin could ignore the part between ; and : when running the search and use that info to pick the format.

I'm not familiar with the codebase, but if something like this is deemed useful for a PR, I could allocate some of my AI code tokens to implement it.

Thanks