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On 27/11/2018 15:27, mr meowski wrote:
Bloody tumblerd... it's currently on my list of annoyances to fix as it happens. It's the thumbnail generator subsystem of Thunar so as an XFCE user it's what draws the pretty preview icons of all your files on your machine(s). I predominantly use the Gnome DE but for 'reasons' usually have Thunar installed and in use over Gnome's Nautilus. tumblerd fights the Nautilus thumbnailer on my system for dominance and when it's not segfaulting and/or refusing to update icon previews in my /export/INCOMING dataset (both common occurrences and very annoying) it's very latest trick is to change the style in which it renders preview icons. Before I had a nice screen full of properly rendered high quality preview icons in the correct aspect ratio for all my encoder workflow - even the demanding modern stuff like 10bit x265 HEVC files. I issued yet another 'killall tumblerd' the other day because I noticed it had stopped generating previews _again_ and when it restarted it re-drew all my lovely preview icons into teletubby style ugly ones: in the wrong aspect ratio and with a stupid stylised film strip effect overlaid obscuring half of the detail. ghost@failbot:~$ history | grep 'killall tumblerd' | wc -l 34 Screw you tumblerd! Grumble grumble etc.
So, I have removed the tumblerd file using synaptic. I have deleted the icons in .thumbnails, (but not the folders). And I can't see any difference in how it looks. So I am wondering why I need tumblerd at all. Am I missing something here?
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