Re: nautilus suggestions [was Re: Nautilus file info.]

["Giovanni A. D." <virtualdk inwind it>]

On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 12:30 PM, David Tabachnikov wrote:

> Bill Haneman wrote:
>
> > [snip]
> >
> > > It is also useful to make gnome more spread to beginners linux user 
> > > to have, like in kde,
> > > the possibility to extract gz, bz2 and so on files just by clicking 
> > > with the right button
> > > over them and selecting "extract here" ..
> >
> > I believe that this feature is either available or planned...  but I am
> > not sure.
> If you install File-Roller, you get that - clicking on a .gz or .bz2 or 
> .zip or .rar file opens a window with the contents, allowing you to 
> drag files out of there, etc... And right clicking on such a file, 
> shows you a menu with "Extract here", "Extract in a subfolder", 
> "Extract to..." and "Add to archive"...


Hmm, good .. i did't knew about File-Roller. Is it for Gnome 2 ? Hope it 
will be included in distro like Mandrake 9!

And, what about the ability to see the information of more than one file 
in one unique window ?
This is, in my opinion, the most important thing.

Thanks.
Bye,
Giovanni