Re: What is tumbler, and do I need it?
On Wed, 2025-09-24 at 12:08 -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> 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.
It seems like the problem is that ristretto is badly designed and/or
programmed from a UX (user experience) PoV: it should show the image
you want to see and only _then_ should it start to create thumbnails
for the sidebar.
You can try to file a bug report about that…
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Jan Claeys
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