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Feature request: WebP thumbnails #1235

Open WebShapedBiz opened 4 years ago

WebShapedBiz commented 4 years ago

With WebP not being arcane any more, it may be nice to have thumbnails for this file type.

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jeremypw commented 4 years ago

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.

jeremypw commented 4 years ago

THis also contains relevant info: https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=52057#p52057

WebShapedBiz commented 4 years ago

Thank you @jeremypw for your time and effort here. I didn't know that :-(

davidak commented 2 years ago

This is still an issue.

Many websites use WebP now and i download those pictures. Please make it work by default.

jeremypw commented 2 years ago

I'll look into this for EOS7.

jeremypw commented 2 years ago

I can confirm that Webp images are not being thumbnailed in Files in EOS7 :disappointed: presumably due to continued lack of a tumbler backend.

jeremypw commented 2 years ago

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

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jeremypw commented 2 years ago

Not sure that we want Files to depend on ImageMagick to make this work oob though. Maybe Photos could carry this dependency??

jeremypw commented 2 years ago

Actually just noticed Photos does include libwebp - but as it is now a Flatpak this is not available for system (native) programs.

Gabriel-p commented 2 months ago

Any change this last two years?

jeremypw commented 2 months ago

I notice that libwebp is available in OS8 so progress may be possible. May not happen for the first stable release of OS8 though.