Webp support in nautilus and eog eye of gnome

rofrol · November 19, 2021, 2:14pm

Hi,

Does it work for you? Can you share your config?

I have found this nixos-configuration/configuration.nix at 6921c4d6b0589d9e276b3f653b33770a49894bee · Shou/nixos-configuration · GitHub

but haven’t checked it yet.

Also there is comment:

THIS DOESNT WORK. something Absolutely Imperative is going on with pixbuf-gdk

github.com

Shou/nixos-configuration/blob/6921c4d6b0589d9e276b3f653b33770a49894bee/configuration.nix#L240

    
      
              gdm = {
                enable = true;
                wayland = lib.mkDefault false;
              };
            };
          
          
  # Enable Digimend (for Huion tablet support)
            digimend.enable = true;
          
          
  # Enable WebP support in gdk-pixbuf, used by Eye of GNOME.
            # THIS DOESNT WORK. something Absolutely Imperative is going on with pixbuf-gdk
            gdk-pixbuf.modulePackages = [ pkgs.librsvg webp-pixbuf-loader ];
          };
          
          
# Define user accounts
          users = {
            users = {
              benedict = {
                isNormalUser = lib.mkDefault true;
                uid = lib.mkDefault 1000;
                extraGroups = [ "wheel" "docker" "networkmanager" "libvirtd" "kvm" "qemu" "input" ];

I am not sure if eog will work with this settings.

Anyway, I will check it in free time. I thought it will be easier to have webp support.

jtojnar · November 19, 2021, 2:35pm

services.xserver.gdk-pixbuf.modulePackages is just a hack used for packages that are not properly wrapped with wrapGAppsHook. Any package following best practices will include a wrapper that sets GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE so the value set by the global environment will be ignored.

The only way to fix this is to add webp-pixbuf-loader to eog dependencies but it currently will not work due to the reasons described in the manual so that would need to be fixed first.

rofrol · November 19, 2021, 2:39pm

Thanks. Is there issue created for that?

jtojnar · November 19, 2021, 2:46pm

Cannot find one at the moment. Perhaps we just discussed that on PRs like Make gdk-pixbuf support avif by mkg20001 · Pull Request #102189 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub and never got around to creating one.

Jalil · October 22, 2022, 11:06pm

Same issue here … no webp thumbnails in Nautilus …