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? -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse. \ / <[email protected]> | It can be beautiful - X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | but it won't. / \ if you read it the right way. | -- Lily Tomlin
