Re: Nautilus and tar.gz/tar.bz2

[Manuel Clos <llanero eresmas net>]

Dave Bordoley wrote:
> It's not my decision, but imho using file roller is the wrong solution.
> To make archive handling in nautilus really useful users should be able
> to treat archives like special folders. Users should be able to perform
> any action they can on a regular folder upon an archive file. This would
> include drag and dropping of files into the archive icon like you can
> with folders, viewing archives as lists/icons etc, creating new archives
> from the context menu (a new documents menu would be really cool).

File roller can drag and drop files to/from an archive.

> A file-roller view may be a good short term fix, but the real goal
> should be imho seemless integration of archives into the file manager.

With file roller you don't get only the tar.bz2 thing, but zip, rar, ...

This will calm down people.

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