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Bug 739934 - Epiphany supports WebP but doesn't claim support for it.
Epiphany supports WebP but doesn't claim support for it.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: General
3.20.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Epiphany Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-11-10 23:49 UTC by Christian Stadelmann
Modified: 2016-04-08 14:08 UTC
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Description Christian Stadelmann 2014-11-10 23:49:40 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
1. download any webp image, e.g. by downloading images from google+ using epiphany. Save the image to a local folder.
2. open epiphany
3. open the file chooser to choose a file to open. Select supported file formats (this is the default).

Result: WebP images are not shown

Epiphany supports WebP images so epiphany should display them in its file chooser as supported file format.
Comment 1 Christian Stadelmann 2016-04-07 12:29:08 UTC 
To fix this issue, just add `image/webp` to the MimeType field in epiphany.desktop, this mime type is also recognized by the `file` util from BSD, shipped with most linux and BSD distros.
Comment 2 Michael Catanzaro 2016-04-08 13:57:46 UTC 
(In reply to Christian Stadelmann from comment #1)
> To fix this issue, just add `image/webp` to the MimeType field in
> epiphany.desktop, this mime type is also recognized by the `file` util from
> BSD, shipped with most linux and BSD distros.

I don't think we should do that; we don't want to suggest Epiphany as an application to handle WebP files, that's the job of image viewers. We just want to allow opening them from the open file dialog.
Comment 3 Michael Catanzaro 2016-04-08 14:08:44 UTC 
Fixed in f260745