Comment # 8 on bug 1001276 from Roger Price

Action: I typed the command
 script -c "sudo zypper in kimageformats kdelibs4support" /tmp/zypper.log

Result a: I got the script report shown below.  

Result b: gwenview now shows jpg images correctly. :-)

Script started on Wed 28 Sep 2016 11:53:19 PM CEST
root's password:
Loading repository data...
Warning: Repository 'openSUSE-Leap-42.2-Update-Non-Oss' appears to be outdated.
Consider using a different mirror or server.
Reading installed packages...
'kimageformats' is already installed.
No update candidate for 'kimageformats-5.26.0-1.1.x86_64'. The highest
available version is already installed.
Resolving package dependencies...

The following 2 NEW packages are going to be installed:
kdelibs4support kdelibs4support-lang

The following recommended package was automatically selected:
kdelibs4support-lang

2 new packages to install.
Overall download size: 1.9 MiB. Already cached: 0 B. After the operation,
additional 11.4 MiB will be used.
Continue? y/n/? (y):
Retrieving package kdelibs4support-5.26.0-1.1.x86_64                      
(1/2), 688.6 KiB (  2.2 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving: kdelibs4support-5.26.0-1.1.x86_64.rpm
..........................................[done (242.5 KiB/s)]
Retrieving package kdelibs4support-lang-5.26.0-1.1.noarch                 
(2/2),   1.2 MiB (  9.3 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving: kdelibs4support-lang-5.26.0-1.1.noarch.rpm
.....................................[done (236.9 KiB/s)]
Checking for file conflicts:
.............................................................................[done]
(1/2) Installing: kdelibs4support-5.26.0-1.1.x86_64
......................................................[done]
(2/2) Installing: kdelibs4support-lang-5.26.0-1.1.noarch
.................................................[done]

Script done on Wed 28 Sep 2016 11:54:17 PM CEST