Does plasma desktop support .webp images as wallpaper?

I use Endeavour OS (Arch based btw) and I've noticed that when I select to choose a new image as my wallpaper, it doesn't support the .webp format.

Does plasma desktop not support .webp images as wallpaper? Am I doing something wrong?

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According to https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/blob/master/shell/packageplugins/wallpaperimages/wallpaperpackage.cpp#L38 WebP is supported but that might be exclusive to Plasma 6.0.
- thanks
Go to cloudconvert.com and convert it to jpeg or png. Then it should work.
- magick input.webp output.jpg
  
  Doesn’t work for me, but this may also be an option.
- thanks, I used gimp to convert from .webp to .png. I guess the plasma desktop does not support .webp images as wallpapers then? It would be cool to support them in the future.
  
  Check again in February after plasma 6 releases.
Check if you have qt5-imageformats package installed. It is an optional dependency for kio-extras package that is not installed by default on Arch distros.

I am pretty sure webp works with the wallpaper picker on plasma5 from my experience.
- cool, thank you very much
If it's anything like jxl there was a separate library to install for that. Might check there

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