Re: Nautilus and tar.gz/tar.bz2

[George Farris <george gmsys com>]

Get fileroller, it hooks into Nautilus nicely.

On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 11:14, bordoley msu edu wrote:
> Hi Luca:
> 
> Luca Rosellini <luca rosellini libero it> said:
> 
> > Is there a way to make nautilus browse tar.gz and tar.bz2 files?
> > I've compiled Gnome 2.0.0 and in gnome-vfs/modules there are bzip2-
> method/gzip-method/tar-method but nautilus still tells:
> > -
> > Nautilus has no installed viewer capable of displaying "foo.tar.bz2".
> 
> Often requested feature that hasn't been implemented yet in nautilus 
> (requires chain loading of URIs). It actually does work (i've seen 
> screenshots at least) if you manually chain the uris in the location bar. 
> Also I don't think the VFS method supports writing, only reading (but don't 
> quote me on that). Anyway you can use file roller for the time being, it 
> provides most of the needed functionality, and maybe someone will get around 
> to fixing nautilus in the future.
> 
> dave
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