On Wed, 2025-09-24 at 12:08 -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > 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.
It seems like the problem is that ristretto is badly designed and/or programmed from a UX (user experience) PoV: it should show the image you want to see and only _then_ should it start to create thumbnails for the sidebar. You can try to file a bug report about that… -- Jan Claeys (please don't CC me when replying to the list)
