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Actually I tested it in practical (for me) conditions and that's not necessarily true. Definitely dependent on the content and target environment. https://gist.github.…
by MadameMinty · Oct 31, 2026
That's crazy; gwenview (The KDE image viewer) has supported webp for quite some time.
by aidenn0 · Oct 30, 2026
WebP is limited to 16383x16383. I've run into this limit a handful of times and I would expect it to become more of an issue as screen pixel densities increase.
by spiralpolitik · Oct 30, 2026
Open a bug report on Eye of Gnome. WebP has no issues opening on all of the native MacOS tooling. Since this is an open source program it should be fairly easy to submit a PR to…
by SchemaLoad · Oct 29, 2026
Try this, as it should support animated webp features in eom. =3 sudo apt install eom webp-pixbuf-loader libimlib2-dev libwebp-dev pkg-config libwebp-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev li…
by Joel_Mckay · Oct 29, 2026
Not really, lossless WEBP still decodes much faster than lossless JXL, so if you need to decode the images faster, you use WEBP. Yes, you could also speculatively decode the JXL…
by Dwedit · Oct 29, 2026
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WebP is a raster graphics file format developed by Google and intended as a replacement for the JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats on the Web. It supports image compression, as well as animation and alpha compositing. The sister project for video is called WebM. Read more on Wikipedia