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.
