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How to Enable AVIF Thumbnails in Nautilus and Support for Other GTK Apps

Posted by Marius Nestor on Aug 31, 2023

Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 5 Is Here Based on Debian GNU/Linux 12.1

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AVIF is not a new format, but it’s not yet used as much as other lossy and lossless image formats, such as the now-popular WebP, despite the fact that it is already supported by widely used web browsers like Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome/Chromium.

It also appears that support for the AVIF image format isn’t yet fully implemented in popular desktop environments like GNOME. For example, GNOME’s default image viewer app Eye of GNOME cannot open AVIF images, and the Nautilus file manager doesn’t generate thumbnails for AVIF images.

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