#1120095 gwenview does not display png files

Package:
gwenview
Source:
gwenview
Description:
image viewer
Submitter:
Hendrik Iseke
Date:
2025-11-05 07:55:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1120095#5
Date:
2025-11-05 07:52:39 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

since recently, gwenview does not display png files anymore. Instead, I
see the error message "Loading ‘test.png’ failed Gwenview cannot display
documents of type image/apng.". Here's the console output:

$ gwenview test.png
org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved mime type  "image/hej2k"
org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved mime type  "image/vnd.radiance"
org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved mime type  "image/x-epson-erf"
org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved mime type  "image/x-hasselblad-3fr"
org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved mime type  "image/x-hasselblad-fff"
org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved mime type  "image/x-leaf-mos"
org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved mime type  "image/x-mamiya-mef"
org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved mime type  "image/x-minolta-mdc"
org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved mime type  "image/x-pfm"
org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved mime type  "image/x-phaseone-iiq"
org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved mime type  "image/x-phm"
org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved mime type  "image/x-pxr"
org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved mime type  "image/x-samsung-srw"
org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved mime type  "image/x-sct"
org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved mime type  "image/x-sinar-sti"
org.kde.kdegraphics.gwenview.lib: Unresolved raw mime type  "image/x-samsung-srw"

The file is a regular png:
$ identify test.png
test.png PNG 1920x1428 1920x1428+0+0 8-bit sRGB 191946B 0.000u 0:00.002

Other Plasma applications (Okular, Kolourpaint, Dolphin preview) work
fine.

Let me know, if I can help out with more information.

Regards,
Hendrik