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Feature request: WebP thumbnails
With WebP not being arcane any more, it may be nice to have thumbnails for this file type.
Need to have a tumbler backend for this - Files does not generate the thumbnails.
There was a tumbler bug raised here: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12528 but that page includes a workaround to get WebP thumbnails - not sure whether it works on Hera (Bionic) though.
THis also contains relevant info: https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=52057#p52057
Thank you @jeremypw for your time and effort here. I didn't know that :-(
This is still an issue.
Many websites use WebP now and i download those pictures. Please make it work by default.
I can confirm that Webp images are not being thumbnailed in Files in EOS7 :disappointed: presumably due to continued lack of a tumbler backend.
I have managed to get Webp thumbnails by installing a custom thumbnailer and imagemagick-6.q16 (providing usr/bin/converter) as described on this page: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/tumbler/available_plugins#customized_thumbnailer_for_webp_content
Not sure that we want Files to depend on ImageMagick to make this work oob though. Maybe Photos could carry this dependency??
Actually just noticed Photos does include libwebp - but as it is now a Flatpak this is not available for system (native) programs.