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[Valtam]

I recommend installing tumbler-pluings-extra. This will show all document types, videos and images as thumbnails in your folders. This is something we'll be adding to LL 2.4 Please note that if you are memory conscious, there is a small impact there (applies only to very low end machines) LL 2.2 still boots to 178mb with this package installed so I'm happy to add it in a future build.

Code:

sudo apt-get install tumbler-plugins-extra

[Scott(0)]

Good info, thanks.

[bitsnpcs]

Thank You for the info Jerry. It will give a chance to get used to using it, its look and feel in advance.

[TMG1961]

Thanks for the info Jerry. Trying it out right now

[sysdrum]

There is a long term impact on system usage if you have NFS or SMB share connected when running tumbler with Thunar 1.6.3 as it was built to take advantage of Nautilus under Gnome 3. I have tested it on both arch and xubuntu. I am currently testing it on 2.2 but I believe it may cause major issues for 32 bit and systems with less than 2 gig of ram. As it builds thumb nails in the background it uses 3% of the ram available. It slows down start times of Thunar upon reboot with loss of start up by about 40%. I have tested it on acer Travelmate 4220 with 1.7 ghz 32bit core duo with 2 gig ram.

[gold_finger]

Side note on this subject.

A test machine with Beta LL 2.2 showed thumbnails for picture files, but not movie files.

I installed "restricted extras" (Menu -> Install Additional Software) to test machine and now thumbnails for movies do show up.  I don't know which of the packages from restricted extras controls that, but one of them fixed it.

Appears that if one has installed restricted extras they don't need the tumbler-plugins-extras package.

There is a long term impact on system usage if you have NFS or SMB share connected when running tumbler with Thunar 1.6.3 as it was built to take advantage of Nautilus under Gnome 3. I have tested it on both arch and xubuntu. I am currently testing it on 2.2 but I believe it may cause major issues for 32 bit and systems with less than 2 gig of ram. As it builds thumb nails in the background it uses 3% of the ram available. It slows down start times of Thunar upon reboot with loss of start up by about 40%. I have tested it on acer Travelmate 4220 with 1.7 ghz 32bit core duo with 2 gig ram.

Thanks for the heads-up.

I'm going to replace Beta 2.2 with Final 2.2 on test system this weekend.  Will use tumbler-plugins-extras package instead of ubuntu-restricted-extras and see how it affects the system.  Test system is an old P4 (vintage 2002) with only 512MB of RAM, so if tumbler causes problems it should be quickly apparent on that machine.  Will post back with results of test.

[Valtam]

Will watch this thread with interest, I know there is a memory concern so if it ends up affecting LL in a bad way we simply won't include it.

[bitsnpcs]

Thank You gold_finger for doing the test 

[Scott(0)]

Here's a tumbler problem I posted about in the past. I *think* it's been fixed.

https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/index...878#msg878

~Scott

[gold_finger]

Okay, newly installed LL 2.2 Final to test machine has been done and played around with it for a couple of hours.  Installed the tumbler-plugins-extra package instead of the restricted-extras that I had on the Beta test run.

I loaded about 30-40 picture files to machine and 3 relatively short video files.  Before adding above package pics had thumbnails produced in Thunar, videos did not (as expected).  After adding package, still no video thumbnails.  Figured that some kind of daemon process needed to be started first, so just restarted computer -- then thumbnails for video files were generated properly.

I tested opening and using various programs while navigating around Thunar to see if I'd notice anything negative and had htop open while doing that.  I opened and closed Thunar several times while running other apps to see if tumbler would cause any slowdowns.  So far, no ill effects and have not run into any unusual memory problems -- all seems to work very well.  Keep in mind that this has been a very limited scope test -- just three short video files to test thumbnailing.  I did not play around with network shares which sound like they might be more of a problem from what sysdrum posted.  I'll keep testing things over time and report back to this thread if I do run into tumbler-related problems.

Going to do a separate write-up on overall impressions of LL 2.2 on this old, limited spec machine in a different post -- very impressed and surprised at how well it performs.  Only had one minor issue with wrong initial repos for two programs (which apparently only happens to me for some reason), but other than that it's great.

P.s.  @ Scott(0) -- At some point this weekend I'll try to really stress out tumbler by connecting an external drive loaded with video files and by downloading some video files w/ and w/o Thunar opened as per your posted link.  Will report back results of that later.