Tumbler-0.2.8

Introduction to Tumbler

The Tumbler package contains a D-Bus thumbnailing service based on the thumbnail management D-Bus specification. This is useful for generating thumbnail images of files.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-9.1 platform.

Package Information

Tumbler Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.62.4

Optional

cURL-7.68.0, FreeType-2.10.1, gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0, gst-plugins-base-1.16.2, GTK-Doc-1.32, libjpeg-turbo-2.0.4, libgsf-1.14.46, libpng-1.6.37, Poppler-0.85.0, FFmpegThumbnailer, and libopenraw

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/tumbler

Installation of Tumbler

Install Tumbler by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Contents

Installed Programs: tumblerd
Installed Library: libtumbler-1.so and several under /usr/lib/tumbler-1/plugins/
Installed Directories: /etc/xdg/tumbler /usr/include/tumbler-1, /usr/lib/tumbler-1 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/tumbler

Short Descriptions

tumblerd

is a D-Bus service for applications such as Thunar and Ristretto to use thumbnail images.

libtumbler-1.so

contains functions that the Tumbler daemon uses to create thumbnail images.

Last updated on 2020-02-17 12:12:55 -0800