The New Hotness

For whatever reason, the Thunar file browser in XFCE does not automagically show thumbnails for webp images. Some searching produced a recipe, although the displayed webp.xml file needs the last two lines to close the tags:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info">
    <mime-type type="image/webp">
        <comment>WebP file</comment>
        <icon name="image"/>
        <glob-deleteall/>
        <glob pattern="*.webp"/>
    </mime-type>
</mime-info>

The magic copy-to-clipboard button includes those tags, so I suppose it’s another case of being careful what you believe on the Intertubes.

Going through the steps displayed images of the Subpixel Zoo:

Thunar - webp previews — Thunar – webp previews

They’ll turn into layered paper patterns:

The New Hotness

Thunar WEBP Thumbnails