diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/x11/gdk-pixbuf.nix b/nixos/modules/services/x11/gdk-pixbuf.nix
index c80e2b22792..2105224f92f 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/x11/gdk-pixbuf.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/x11/gdk-pixbuf.nix
@@ -1,34 +1,17 @@
 { config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
 
-with lib;
-
 let
   cfg = config.services.xserver.gdk-pixbuf;
 
-  # Get packages to generate the cache for. We always include gdk-pixbuf.
-  effectivePackages = unique ([pkgs.gdk-pixbuf] ++ cfg.modulePackages);
-
-  # Generate the cache file by running gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders for each
-  # package and concatenating the results.
-  loadersCache = pkgs.runCommand "gdk-pixbuf-loaders.cache" { preferLocalBuild = true; } ''
-    (
-      for package in ${concatStringsSep " " effectivePackages}; do
-        module_dir="$package/${pkgs.gdk-pixbuf.moduleDir}"
-        if [[ ! -d $module_dir ]]; then
-          echo "Warning (services.xserver.gdk-pixbuf): missing module directory $module_dir" 1>&2
-          continue
-        fi
-        GDK_PIXBUF_MODULEDIR="$module_dir" \
-          ${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.emulator pkgs.buildPackages} ${pkgs.gdk-pixbuf.dev}/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders
-      done
-    ) > "$out"
-  '';
+  loadersCache = pkgs.gnome._gdkPixbufCacheBuilder_DO_NOT_USE {
+    extraLoaders = lib.unique (cfg.modulePackages);
+  };
 in
 
 {
   options = {
-    services.xserver.gdk-pixbuf.modulePackages = mkOption {
-      type = types.listOf types.package;
+    services.xserver.gdk-pixbuf.modulePackages = lib.mkOption {
+      type = lib.types.listOf lib.types.package;
       default = [ ];
       description = lib.mdDoc "Packages providing GDK-Pixbuf modules, for cache generation.";
     };
@@ -37,7 +20,7 @@ in
   # If there is any package configured in modulePackages, we generate the
   # loaders.cache based on that and set the environment variable
   # GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE to point to it.
-  config = mkIf (cfg.modulePackages != []) {
+  config = lib.mkIf (cfg.modulePackages != []) {
     environment.variables = {
       GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE = "${loadersCache}";
     };
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome/core/eog/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome/core/eog/default.nix
index ccb4d439240..e0a943a8e1c 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome/core/eog/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome/core/eog/default.nix
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 , shared-mime-info
 , wrapGAppsHook
 , librsvg
+, webp-pixbuf-loader
 , libexif
 , gobject-introspection
 , gi-docgen
@@ -78,6 +79,17 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "-Dgtk_doc=true"
   ];
 
+  postInstall = ''
+    # Pull in WebP support for gnome-backgrounds.
+    # In postInstall to run before gappsWrapperArgsHook.
+    export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE="${gnome._gdkPixbufCacheBuilder_DO_NOT_USE {
+      extraLoaders = [
+        librsvg
+        webp-pixbuf-loader
+      ];
+    }}"
+  '';
+
   preFixup = ''
     gappsWrapperArgs+=(
       # Thumbnailers
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome/core/gnome-control-center/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome/core/gnome-control-center/default.nix
index 2c6db7f854a..bd2777610fa 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome/core/gnome-control-center/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome/core/gnome-control-center/default.nix
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 , libpulseaudio
 , libpwquality
 , librsvg
+, webp-pixbuf-loader
 , libsecret
 , libwacom
 , libxml2
@@ -139,6 +140,17 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     addToSearchPath "XDG_DATA_DIRS" "${polkit.out}/share"
   '';
 
+  postInstall = ''
+    # Pull in WebP support for gnome-backgrounds.
+    # In postInstall to run before gappsWrapperArgsHook.
+    export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE="${gnome._gdkPixbufCacheBuilder_DO_NOT_USE {
+      extraLoaders = [
+        librsvg
+        webp-pixbuf-loader
+      ];
+    }}"
+  '';
+
   preFixup = ''
     gappsWrapperArgs+=(
       --prefix XDG_DATA_DIRS : "${sound-theme-freedesktop}/share"
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome/core/gnome-shell/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome/core/gnome-shell/default.nix
index ccc34ecca01..050a88dd0b3 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome/core/gnome-shell/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome/core/gnome-shell/default.nix
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 , shared-mime-info
 , libgweather
 , librsvg
+, webp-pixbuf-loader
 , geoclue2
 , perl
 , docbook_xml_dtd_45
@@ -187,6 +188,17 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     rm data/theme/gnome-shell.css
   '';
 
+  postInstall = ''
+    # Pull in WebP support for gnome-backgrounds.
+    # In postInstall to run before gappsWrapperArgsHook.
+    export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE="${gnome._gdkPixbufCacheBuilder_DO_NOT_USE {
+      extraLoaders = [
+        librsvg
+        webp-pixbuf-loader
+      ];
+    }}"
+  '';
+
   preFixup = ''
     gappsWrapperArgs+=(
       # Until glib’s xdgmime is patched
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome/core/nautilus/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome/core/nautilus/default.nix
index 163c562a1ab..5eacfdac5ba 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome/core/nautilus/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome/core/nautilus/default.nix
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 , libexif
 , libseccomp
 , librsvg
+, webp-pixbuf-loader
 , tracker
 , tracker-miners
 , gexiv2
@@ -106,6 +107,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       # Thumbnailers
       --prefix XDG_DATA_DIRS : "${gdk-pixbuf}/share"
       --prefix XDG_DATA_DIRS : "${librsvg}/share"
+      --prefix XDG_DATA_DIRS : "${webp-pixbuf-loader}/share"
       --prefix XDG_DATA_DIRS : "${shared-mime-info}/share"
     )
   '';
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome/default.nix
index b8d48cf12fd..08dd450043a 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome/default.nix
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 lib.makeScope pkgs.newScope (self: with self; {
   updateScript = callPackage ./update.nix { };
 
+  # Temporary helper until gdk-pixbuf supports multiple cache files.
+  # This will go away, do not use outside Nixpkgs.
+  _gdkPixbufCacheBuilder_DO_NOT_USE = callPackage ./gdk-pixbuf-cache-builder.nix { };
+
   libsoup = pkgs.libsoup.override { gnomeSupport = true; };
   libchamplain = pkgs.libchamplain.override { libsoup = libsoup; };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome/gdk-pixbuf-cache-builder.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome/gdk-pixbuf-cache-builder.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..22359e9a582
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome/gdk-pixbuf-cache-builder.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+{
+  runCommand,
+  pkg-config,
+  gdk-pixbuf,
+  lib,
+  stdenv,
+  buildPackages,
+}:
+
+{
+  extraLoaders,
+}:
+
+let
+  # Get packages to generate the cache for. We always include gdk-pixbuf.
+  loaderPackages = [
+    gdk-pixbuf
+  ] ++ extraLoaders;
+in
+
+# Generate the cache file by running gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders for each
+# package and concatenating the results.
+runCommand "gdk-pixbuf-loaders.cache" {
+  preferLocalBuild = true;
+} ''
+  (
+    for package in ${lib.escapeShellArgs loaderPackages}; do
+      module_dir="$package/${gdk-pixbuf.moduleDir}"
+      if [[ ! -d "$module_dir" ]]; then
+        echo "Error: gdkPixbufCacheBuilder: Passed package “''${package}” does not contain GdkPixbuf loaders in “${gdk-pixbuf.moduleDir}”." 1>&2
+        exit 1
+      fi
+      GDK_PIXBUF_MODULEDIR="$module_dir" \
+        ${stdenv.hostPlatform.emulator buildPackages} ${gdk-pixbuf.dev}/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders
+    done
+  ) > "$out"
+''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/webp-pixbuf-loader/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/webp-pixbuf-loader/default.nix
index 82ce1e4796d..82c2d6a3218 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/webp-pixbuf-loader/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/webp-pixbuf-loader/default.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,16 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub
-, meson, ninja, pkg-config, makeWrapper
-, gdk-pixbuf, libwebp
+{ lib
+, stdenv
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, meson
+, ninja
+, pkg-config
+, makeWrapper
+, gdk-pixbuf
+, libwebp
 }:
+
 let
-  moduleDir = gdk-pixbuf.moduleDir;
+  inherit (gdk-pixbuf) moduleDir;
 
   # turning lib/gdk-pixbuf-#.#/#.#.#/loaders into lib/gdk-pixbuf-#.#/#.#.#/loaders.cache
   # removeSuffix is just in case moduleDir gets a trailing slash
@@ -15,36 +22,47 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "aruiz";
-    repo = pname;
+    repo = "webp-pixbuf-loader";
     rev = version;
     sha256 = "sha256-dcdydWYrXZJjo4FxJtvzGzrQLOs87/BmxshFZwsT2ws=";
   };
 
-  # It looks for gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer in this package's bin rather than the gdk-pixbuf bin. We need to patch that.
-  postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace webp-pixbuf.thumbnailer.in --replace @bindir@/gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer $out/bin/webp-thumbnailer
-  '';
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    gdk-pixbuf
+    meson
+    ninja
+    pkg-config
+    makeWrapper
+  ];
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ gdk-pixbuf meson ninja pkg-config makeWrapper ];
-  buildInputs = [ gdk-pixbuf libwebp ];
+  buildInputs = [
+    gdk-pixbuf
+    libwebp
+  ];
 
   mesonFlags = [
     "-Dgdk_pixbuf_query_loaders_path=${gdk-pixbuf.dev}/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders"
     "-Dgdk_pixbuf_moduledir=${placeholder "out"}/${moduleDir}"
   ];
 
-  # It assumes gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer can find the webp loader in the loaders.cache referenced by environment variable, breaking containment.
-  # So we replace it with a wrapped executable.
-  postInstall = ''
-    mkdir -p $out/bin
-    makeWrapper ${gdk-pixbuf}/bin/gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer $out/bin/webp-thumbnailer \
-      --set GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE $out/${loadersPath}
+  postPatch = ''
+    # It looks for gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer in this package's bin rather than the gdk-pixbuf bin. We need to patch that.
+    substituteInPlace webp-pixbuf.thumbnailer.in \
+      --replace "@bindir@/gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer" "$out/bin/webp-thumbnailer"
   '';
 
-  # environment variables controlling loaders.cache generation by gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders
   preInstall = ''
-    export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE=$out/${loadersPath}
-    export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULEDIR=$out/${moduleDir}
+    # environment variables controlling loaders.cache generation by gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders
+    export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE="$out/${loadersPath}"
+    export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULEDIR="$out/${moduleDir}"
+  '';
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    # It assumes gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer can find the webp loader in the loaders.cache referenced by environment variable, breaking containment.
+    # So we replace it with a wrapped executable.
+    mkdir -p "$out/bin"
+    makeWrapper "${gdk-pixbuf}/bin/gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer" "$out/bin/webp-thumbnailer" \
+      --set GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE "$out/${loadersPath}"
   '';
 
   meta = with lib; {
@@ -52,7 +70,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     homepage = "https://github.com/aruiz/webp-pixbuf-loader";
     license = licenses.lgpl2Plus;
     platforms = platforms.unix;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.cwyc ];
+    maintainers = teams.gnome.members ++ [ maintainers.cwyc ];
     # meson.build:16:0: ERROR: Program or command 'gcc' not found or not executable
     broken = stdenv.isDarwin;
   };
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/default.nix
index 5339a0c54cb..83ea313f9e9 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/default.nix
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 , xdg-desktop-portal
 , wayland
 , gnome
+, librsvg
+, webp-pixbuf-loader
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
@@ -47,6 +49,17 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "-Dsystemduserunitdir=${placeholder "out"}/lib/systemd/user"
   ];
 
+  postInstall = ''
+    # Pull in WebP support for gnome-backgrounds.
+    # In postInstall to run before gappsWrapperArgsHook.
+    export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE="${gnome._gdkPixbufCacheBuilder_DO_NOT_USE {
+      extraLoaders = [
+        librsvg
+        webp-pixbuf-loader
+      ];
+    }}"
+  '';
+
   passthru = {
     updateScript = gnome.updateScript {
       packageName = pname;