WebP Wallpapers

[Vinicius Gobbo Antunes de Oliveira]

Hi,

Thank you for your answer. I've been looking for a way to contribute to 
KDE since I got in love with it a few months ago. I'll dig into this and 
maybe this is my initial step into the project.

Thank you!


On 03/28/2014 09:22 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 28/03/14 22:58, Vinicius Gobbo Antunes de Oliveira wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> This is my first post at the KDE mailing list. Not sure whether this
>> is the right list to mail to.
>>
>> Recently, I've been playing with WebP image format, and after a few
>> benchmarks I decided to convert all my wallpaper images from JPG to
>> WebP.
>>
>> The problem I'm having is that KDE doesn't seem to support WebP
>> wallpaper images, since I can not select one of them to set as my
>> wallpaper.
> Very new image format. Some of the apps that do support it, do so
> through BMP (ugh!) transforms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP#Support
>
> Limited support is available in KDE:-
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253572
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267365
>
>
>> Does anyone have ever tried to do is or know whether it is supported
>> or not?
> I researched it first, found limited KDE support, and that it was still
> a far from compelling image format to adopt.
> Not as optimised as ImageZero[*1], and has a number of shortcomings:-
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP#Criticism
>
> [*1]http://imagezero.maxiom.de/
>
>> Maybe this is just a filter being missed at the image selection box
>> (the filter displays only: *.png *.jpeg *.jpg *.xcf *.svg *.svgz
>> *.bmp), and maybe adding *.webp will solve the issue.
> No. Read the bugreports.
>
>> If someone can confirm this as a possibility, I'll fill a bug and try
>> to patch it myself.
> Please read the referenced bug reports (now consolidated), and add to
> them if necessary.
>
>> My system is a Gentoo, with KDE 4.11.5 (latest version avaiable for
>> Gentoo), Gwenview happily displays WebP just as does Dolphin
>> thumbnails.
>>
>> --
>>
>> *Vinicius Gobbo Antunes de Oliveira* /Norton Tecnologia da
>> Informação/ Cel.: (19) 98106 5188 Skype: v.gobbo
>>
>
> Kind regards
>
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