Geeqie opens a webp and is in repo. Just select it he opened images and not a browser
Webp images outside the browser
Gwenview opens webp without issue. If you use Budgie and are reluctant to install Gwenview from the repository (it's a KDE app), there is a flatpak and appimage version too:
Thanks to all of you, I'll try them
5 months later
I'm running Solus Budgie and for webp format, I loaded webp-pixbuf-loader which is supposed to enable apps like eog or just preview of webp on nautilus but it does work still can't preview webp from nautilus but can open them with geeqie
6 days later
unclemez Nice. Also a small update: @joebonrichie actually updated our usysconf tool to now support updating the loaders.cache automatically with updates (currently in the Unstable repository, will be part of the next sync)
I cannot open WEBP images outside the browser on all my Solus PCs.
Adding to this converstation only anecdotally:
without solus repo or flatpak app help when I save something off the web, then try to open it, I have about a 25% success rate. Meaning 75% of webp files won't open.
I've tried the extension change trick (jpeg, png) but that is successful less than 25%. not a great solution
Anybody ever just simply play with the print settings? I always forget when I print/save a page. Pomon up there is on to something.---(In other words I wonder if I can find a consistent way to open webp's withouth the benefit of an app?)
noise617 ---there are several solutions offered on this thread.
XnViewMP is a versatile and powerful photo viewer, image management, image resizer. XnView is one of the most stable, easy-to-use, and comprehensive photo editors. All common picture and graphics formats are supported (JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, WEBP, PSD, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, camera RAW, HEIC, PDF, DNG, CR2).
Download last version from here: https://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewforum.php?f=82&sid=ffc4197b1d120a60b3be49f287826643
Or Flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.xnview.XnViewMP
Very good example of collaboration ... I like that !
UPDATE: I can now open .webp images using, e. g., Gnome Image Viewer -- but there are not previews in Nautilus. I am running the default Budgie version of Solus.
You can open the image " webp" with Gimp, and then use the Export as "function" to change the images to jpg or any format you want. it will make a copy of the file next to the webp image. after that it will show up in nautilus. https://www.widsmob.com/articles/gimp-webp.html
Silversurfer Well, it's just that @unclemez reported that it is possible to get .webp previews working, so I was wondering why it doesn't work with me, although I used the same lines in terminal.
Thats strange, i installed the webp package from the Solus pacage senter, and then used the terminal to update;
sudo /usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache.
or this way ;You need to install it first sudo eopkg it webp-pixbuf-loader
then sudo /usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache
had to restart the system, but now the images show up in nautilus
