GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 510843
file-roller filetype handling good but not shared in other gnome apps
Last modified: 2008-03-23 13:49:28 UTC
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510842 As noted there, file-roller handles a multitude of archive types but other applications aren't wired to use it. There should be a layer made to handle archive types (or is there one used with file-roller and others just don't take advantage of it? if so, sorry for this particular bug report :-) which fileroller can use to do it's thing. gnome-appearance-properties should also use said layer. As should gdmsetup, and nautilus's "Create Archive" thing which I guess is just a plug-in? ...Anyway, this is ridiculous that some apps lock me in to certain formats and other apps lock me in to a different set... meanwhile... NONE of them allow .7z which is all I use, personally. I know a lot of people who like rar, lots who use only "tar" for a lot of things, etc... This should def. happen.
(In reply to comment #0) > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510842 > As noted there, file-roller handles a multitude of archive types but other > applications aren't wired to use it. There should be a layer made to handle > archive types (or is there one used with file-roller and others just don't take > advantage of it? if so, sorry for this particular bug report :-) which > fileroller can use to do it's thing. This is by no means a GARNOME issue, entirely unrelated. > gnome-appearance-properties should also use said layer. Duplicate of bug 510842. > As should gdmsetup, and nautilus's "Create Archive" thing which > I guess is just a plug-in? ... Create Archive actually IS file-roller. INVALID > Anyway, this is ridiculous that some apps lock me > in to certain formats and other apps lock me in to a different set... > meanwhile... NONE of them allow .7z which is all I use, personally. I know a > lot of people who like rar, lots who use only "tar" for a lot of things, etc... > This should def. happen. And so it did. AFAIK, file-roller can handle 7zip files for years. A quick google search will show you. Closing INVALID, as I don't see any bug above...