Re: PATCH - Add DnD files onto archiver files with help of file-roller

["Nelson Benítez León" <nbenitezl gmail com>]

2008/5/30 Christian Neumair <cneumair gnome org>:

Am Donnerstag, den 29.05.2008, 22:20 +0200 schrieb Nelson Benítez León:

> Gracias a ti :) , thanks for finally getting this patch in nautilus!!,


¡no ha sido nada!

>  also you mention in a TODO some mimetypes file-roller doesn't support
> adding files into, do you know a file-roller bug about that? if not
> I'll file it.

I did not file any, because it affects bzip- or gzip-encapsulated
tarballs, and I am not sure whether this feature is useful at all for
them.

In contrast to zip files or simple tarballs, you'd have to read the
entire encapsulated tarball from the gzip file, store at a temporary
location, append the file and re-encapsulate it. This may not be a good
idea on remote system.

File-roller shows a ui dialog with a progress bar when the operation is getting long.. but if this is not enough, we could just ignore bzip-gzip tarballs on remote system, but allow it in local, but I personally would permit it for all...

I think the most commonly used archives are zip and rar files, because
they can easily be used on a Windows or MacOS system. .tar.bz2/.tar.gz
files seem to be mainly used for software distribution.

If you still wonder why the TODO comment was written that way: The UI
seems to support the addition of files for compressed tarballs, but the
command line not - at least not with my testcase.

But the actual question is whether we want to a time-consuming update of
tarballs without any UI feedback, and does not depend on whether
file-roller supports this.

File-roller have ui feedback when the operation is getting long, try adding a 90MB file to a zip file and you'll see the dialog..

ARCHIVER TEMPLATES FOR A COMPLETE USECASE

Also, now it would be interesting to have zip, rar and bzip templates files, installed by default, in the "new document" menu, so making a zip to send to a friend would be just 2 steps:
 1) New document -› New zip file
 2) Drag some files and drop it in the zip file.

 So we could easily make zip files entirely from nautilus, we could put the Templates on a subfolder so it would be:

1) New document -› Archiver files -› New zip file

Another option would be that file-roller installs the Template files on its "make install" step, but Nautilus afaik doesn't have a general Template dir where all users could read of, currently templates are per-user in $HOME/Templates so this would have to be changed.

I would like to read your opinions about this.
 

best regards,
 Christian Neumair

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Christian Neumair <cneumair gnome org>