Tumbler-0.1.30

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-7.6 systemd platform.

Package Information

Tumbler Dependencies

Required

dbus-glib-0.102

Optional

cURL-7.37.1, FFmpegThumbnailer, FreeType-2.5.3, gdk-pixbuf-2.30.8, gst-plugins-base-0.10.36, GTK-Doc-1.20, libjpeg-turbo-1.3.1, libgsf-1.14.30, libopewnraw, libpng-1.6.13 and Poppler-0.26.4

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: /usr/include/tumbler-1, /usr/lib/tumbler-1 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/tumbler

Short Descriptions

tumblerd

is a daemon 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 2014-08-25 11:16:47 -0700