[Feature]: only accept actually supported filetypes #6651
Description
What is the user problem or growth opportunity you want to see solved?
It is confusing that I can share images to CommonsApp and complete most steps, but then upload fails.
It would be better if app would straight-out refuse unsupported file types.
According to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_types#Images, recommend are: SVG, PNG, and JPEG. But it also seems to allow e.g. WEBP and GIF.
so the app should:
- determine what files it will support, and what not. I'd suggest sticking with ones listed above.
- in its internal file selector, disable (shade-out) types the app doesn't support / won't be able to upload -- e.g. currently .heic is disabled so can't be selected (see screenshot below)
- when shared from other app, Commons should immediately complain that this file type is not supported (currently it allows sharing e.g.
.heicfiles, but the upload then fails)
Alternatively to refusing file types, Commons app might include converter to convert them to one of supported file types (e.g.
How do you know that this problem exists today? Why is this important?
I've tested it with recent app release 6.2.1 and 6.3.0 git beta branches
Who will benefit from it?
Users sharing non-JPEG images
Anything else you would like to add?
example showing .heic being disabled