GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 40289
Clicking on a tar/bzip/gzip file doesn't show contents
Last modified: 2008-05-03 10:33:11 UTC
"Carbamide" says that it used to open as a directory instead and it's broken now ------- Additional Comments From mjs@noisehavoc.org 2000-03-27 10:36:32 ---- It never used to open as a directory AFAIK (but it should). ------- Additional Comments From mjs@noisehavoc.org 2000-05-02 01:54:05 ---- It doesn't show it as text, it only shows it as the sample view, but it doesn't give a directory view either. ------- Additional Comments From mjs@noisehavoc.org 2000-06-15 13:21:05 ---- Reducing this task to just: When you click on a tar file in nautilus, it should automatically open the right URI to point to it's directory contents, and be able to apply file manager views to it. However, we must make sure the current RPM view is still available for RPMs. The remainder of the work is now in the following bugs: 1375 1376 1377 1378 1379 1380 1381 1382 1383 1384 ------- Additional Comments From mjs@noisehavoc.org 2000-06-20 15:42:11 ---- Moving to post-1.0, per Bud and Andy's request. ------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2000-07-31 11:50:22 ---- After talking to pepper, we're re-deferring these gzip bugs. There's just too much work on Ian's plate (and everyone else's) to try to get them done in time for our deadlines. I left bug 41174 un-deferred for now because it's a slightly different topic and I don't understand the trade-offs well. ------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-10-16 19:30:36 ---- Batch-assigning QA ownership of remaining bugs to eli@eazel.com ------- Additional Comments From yakk@yakk.net 2000-12-20 17:03:19 ---- Moving to my new Bugzilla account ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:39 ------- Bug depends on bug(s) 41377 41378. Bug blocks bug(s) 41383.
*** Bug 41383 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 41384 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 41378 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 41608 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Some comments by yakk from bug 41608 that should be considered in the implementation. I agree view as should not be used. I like the chain url idea though. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Compressed files and archives can be decoded by choosing `View as gzip' or `View as zip' from the `View as' menu now. This uses gnome-vfs modules, so a path of /home/yakk/file.txt.gz will be changed to /home/yakk/file.txt.gz#gzip:. I don't really like something in the View as menu changing the currently viewed URI, but I can't think of a better way of doing it. Are there any better ideas?
*** Bug 42221 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 42813 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 43133 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
bug 43133, has some debug info that may or may not be useful, dont know.
*** Bug 43777 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
louie: I've set this bug as a place holder for all tar/gzip/bzip bugs. I think I got most of them.
*** Bug 62954 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Although file-roller is reasonable temporary solution, it would be nice to have a component handling it.
file-roller is now part of the desktop release. Is there really anything to gain by having a component for this?
Yes. One of *the* chief arguments of the "Nautilus sucks" squad would go away. Of course I don't suggest we implement everything that's in Konqueror, but people are pointing out all the time that it has done archive browsing for years and Nautilus doesn't. Besides, transparent decompression would really be nice to have. Browsing an archive is just like browsing a file system, I don't see why it has to happen in an external program. File Roller has nothing but a list view; it would be nice to have the icon view and a tree when looking around in a large archive.
This is a very old bug, but it should probably be looked at-- the capability seems to be there, at least in the extfs module of VFS. File roller doesn't obey stuff like single/double click settings, and isn't spacial when Nautilus is in spacial mode-- in short, it's not a very good file manager. :)
*** Bug 153969 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Is there anything going on concerning this bug? I still think that Nautilus should be able to open compressed folders. Iso-files also.
Shouldn't this bug really be in GNOME-VFS? Or does GNOME-VFS already support reading archive contents? It seems to me that if this functionality was in GNOME-VFS, then *all* apps would suddenly be able to read suff from archives. That would be better than just Nautilus being able to.
We support this through GVFS now with Benjamin Otte's archive backend. Closing as fixed.