Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 8.1

Chapter 35. Xfce Desktop

Tumbler-0.2.0

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-8.1 platform.

Package Information

Tumbler Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.52.3

Optional

cURL-7.55.1, FreeType-2.8, gdk-pixbuf-2.36.8, gst-plugins-base-1.12.2, GTK-Doc-1.26, libjpeg-turbo-1.5.2, libgsf-1.14.41, libpng-1.6.31, Poppler-0.57.0, FFmpegThumbnailer, and libopewnraw

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 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 2017-08-21 16:43:13 -0700