Ubuntu 22.10 To Ship With WebP Image Support Out-Of-The-Box

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu 22.10 To Ship With WebP Image Support Out-Of-The-Box

Prior to this past week's Ubuntu 22.10 feature freeze, webp-pixbuf-loader was promoted to the main archive for allowing WebP images to have thumbnail support within the GNOME desktop on this next Ubuntu release and being able to open up WebP image files within the GNOME image viewer and the like...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-22.10-webp-pixbuf-loader

[Quackdoc]

wait, they haven't had support for webp until now? Man no wonder everyone considers ubuntu a joke. now that webp is pretty much being EOLd by avif and jxl they add support for it? Calling ubuntu a joke is an insult to comedians.

[cl333r]

wait, they haven't had support for webp until now? Man no wonder everyone considers ubuntu a joke. now that webp is pretty much being EOLd by avif and jxl they add support for it? Calling ubuntu a joke is an insult to comedians.

Except for WebP being EOLd.

[leo_sk]

wait, they haven't had support for webp until now? Man no wonder everyone considers ubuntu a joke. now that webp is pretty much being EOLd by avif and jxl they add support for it? Calling ubuntu a joke is an insult to comedians.

Which distros had it out of the box?

[billyswong]

So Linux Mint beat Ubuntu this time.

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4336

Webp support was added to xviewer and thumbnailers.

[lumks]

This is pretty much required, now that GNOME shipps all wallpapers in webp and so expects webp support.

[Brisse]

With webp-pixbuf-loader, GNOME's Nautilus file manager can display thumbnails for WebP images and it's needed for opening said images into the Eye of GNOME (EOG) image viewer or Shotwell.

Can't speak for Ubuntu, but I installed webp-pixbuf-loader on my Debian testing machine recently after someone sent me an album encoded in webp. Works as expected, but Shotwell doesn't seem to make use of it and still can't open webp.

Edit: Seen some signs on the Debian mailing lists that Shotwell will receive patches to make use of this library soon.

[ssokolow]

that supports both lossy and lossless compression and can handle animations too.

Yeah. It's like they looked at APNG and said "That one thing which is such an idiotic decision that APNG support can never get into libpng because libpng is the reference implementation and APNG is a direct violation of the PNG specification... let's do more of that".

Hell, why do we need any file extensions when we can mush everything together into a single file type?

[skeevy420]

Yeah. It's like they looked at APNG and said "That one thing which is such an idiotic decision that APNG support can never get into libpng because libpng is the reference implementation and APNG is a direct violation of the PNG specification... let's do more of that".

Hell, why do we need any file extensions when we can mush everything together into a single file type?

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[ssokolow]

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I think you mean the Ogg container format... but at least they have the decency to define different extensions you're supposed to use for different media types, similar to how WMV and WMA are both just ASF with different contents and how a lot of 90s formats with different extensions are just RIFF containers.