What is tumbler, and do I need it?
I just tried displaying a JPEG file with ristretto. Rather than popping
up right away, there was a delay of 30 seconds or so before the image
finally appeared. Running ps, I found a process called tumblerd, which
appeared to be consuming system resources. A bit of web searching
revealed that other people have had trouble with this too.
Looking for a description of tumbler, I found the following:
"Tumbler is a D-Bus service for applications to request thumbnails
for various URI schemes and MIME types." OK, my eyes are glazed
over now. In practical terms, what does this mean? Is it anything
to do with the thumbnails I see in thunar? Or is it something
unrelated - and should I care?
When I ask to see a picture, I don't want my machine running off
and doing God knows what behind my back. I'll leave that kind of
behaviour to Windows vict^H^H^H^Husers.
Is there any reason I shouldn't remove or disable this package?
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