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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
Silversurfer , well, this is what I entered in the terminal, literally:
user@pc ~ $ sudo eopkg it webp-pixbuf-loader
Password:
The following package(s) are already installed and are not going to be installed again:
webp-pixbuf-loader
No packages to install.
user@pc ~ $ sudo /usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache
user@pc ~ $ sudo reboot nowAfter reboot, I checked Nautilus settings:
But .webp images still do not show up as icons in the file manager:
Don't know what else to check.
@Staudey said this earlier
Staudey 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)
so i recommend you wait this weekend update which should bring a fix to that problem
it's already Thursday, so few more hours won't hurt i believe
I have just run sudo eopkg check for a different purpose and it signalled that a webp-relevant package is broken:
Checking integrity of gdk-pixbuf Broken
Corrupted file: /usr/lib64/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cacheI've tried sudo eopkg rm gdk-pixbug but it says there is no such file. How can this be handled?
noise617
That's because the package name is gdk-pixbuf, not pixbug 
Anyway, two important things to note about this:
usysconf trigger (e.g. when you install the webp loader) it's not unusual for eopkg check to report it as "Broken", which simply means that it's not in the state it was in during the package installation. I do wonder however whether we should handle this a bit better now.sudo eopkg it --reinstall <package-name>). Otherwise you might remove something vital to the system.Well my gdk-pixbuf is reported as broken now after todays update. I have trie reinstalling, but it is still broke..So Whats the solution??
Silversurfer Well my gdk-pixbuf is reported as broken now after todays update. I have trie reinstalling, but it is still broke..So Whats the solution??
Try sudo eopkg check | grep Broken | awk '{print $4}' | xargs sudo eopkg it --reinstall
I had the same issue:
tomscharbach@ts-plasma-portable ~ $ sudo eopkg check
...
Checking integrity of gdk-pixbuf Broken
Corrupted file: /usr/lib64/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
...
As was the case with your installation, sudo eopkg it --reinstall gdk-pixbuf did not resolve the issue.
However, the General Troubleshooting command sudo eopkg check | grep Broken | awk '{print $4}' | xargs sudo eopkg it --reinstall resolved the issue:
tomscharbach@ts-plasma-portable ~ $ sudo eopkg check | grep Broken | awk '{print $4}' | xargs sudo eopkg it --reinstall
Total size of package(s): 477.00 KB
Downloading 1 / 1
Package gdk-pixbuf found in repository Solus
gdk-pixbuf-2.42.9-47-1-x86_64.eopkg [cached]
Installing 1 / 1
gdk-pixbuf-2.42.9-47-1-x86_64.eopkg [cached]
Installing gdk-pixbuf, version 2.42.9, release 47
Extracting the files of gdk-pixbuf
Installed gdk-pixbuf
[✓] Syncing filesystems success
[✓] Updating dynamic library cache success
[✓] Updating manpages database success
The command sudo eopkg check no longer reports gdk-pixbuf as "Broken":
tomscharbach@ts-plasma-portable ~ $ sudo eopkg check
...
Checking integrity of gdk-pixbuf OK
...
I have no idea why the one worked and the other didn't. No guarantee that what worked for me will work for you, but it is worth a try.
Ah the broken gdk-pixbuf package is due to the pre-compiled loaders.cache file getting overridden by the new usysconf trigger for gdk-pixbuf. I'll remove the pre-compiled loaders.cache file and let usysconf handle it exclusively. It is nothing to worry about in the mean while.
I've tried sudo eopkg check | grep Broken | awk '{print $4}' | xargs sudo eopkg it --reinstall and it succesfully re-installed three packages:
dropbox gdk-pixbuf noto-sans-ttfHowever, sudo eopkg check still indicates:
Checking integrity of gdk-pixbuf Broken
Corrupted file: /usr/lib64/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache