I have a few webp images that I would like to open, but currently the only applications I have that are able to do so are firefox and gimp.
Eog (the default image viewer on Budgie) does not seem to open them properly. On the Fedora forum I found this project, but it's not packaged on Solus (and at v0.0.4 I'm not even sure it passes the requirements for package inclusion).
Is there any solution on Solus?

    Geeqie opens a webp and is in repo. Just select it he opened images and not a browser

    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

      unclemez

      Since we don't have the necessary trigger in usysconf yet, I think you have to run sudo /usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache for everything to work correctly after installing webp-pixbuf-loader

          6 days later

          Staudey sudo /usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache

          100% working !
          proof in attached screenshot

              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.

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                  noise617
                  You need to install it first sudo eopkg it webp-pixbuf-loader
                  then sudo /usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache
                  now try again.

                      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.