Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 12.2

Chapter 35. Xfce Desktop

tumbler-4.18.2

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 12.2 platform.

Package Information

Tumbler Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.80.4

Optional

cURL-8.9.1, FreeType-2.13.3, gdk-pixbuf-2.42.12, gst-plugins-base-1.24.7, GTK-Doc-1.34.0, libjpeg-turbo-3.0.1, libgsf-1.14.52, libpng-1.6.43, Poppler-24.08.0, FFmpegThumbnailer, libgepub, and libopenraw

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

Finally, remove a systemd unit which is useless on a SysV system: 

rm -fv /usr/lib/systemd/user/tumblerd.service

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