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Tumbler Thumbnail Service
Introduction
Tumbler is a D-Bus service for applications to request thumbnails for various URI schemes and MIME types. It is an implementation of the thumbnail management D-Bus specification described on
https://wiki.gnome.org/DraftSpecs/ThumbnailerSpec
written in an object-oriented fashion using GLib and GObject. Its modular architecture makes it very flexible and useful in many situations. It provides plugin interfaces for extending the URI schemes and MIME types for which thumbnails can be generated as well as
for replacing the storage backend that is used to store the thumbnails on disk. Tumbler's functionality can also be extended via specialized thumbnailer services implemented in accordance to the thumbnail management D-Bus specification.
Tumbler is used by Thunar, Xfce and MeeGo.
Available Plugins
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.
Latest Release
0.3.0 (20200813)
Source Code Repository
Reporting Bugs
- Reporting Bugs – Open bug reports and how to report new bugs