GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 685896
file-roller cannot open Open Document or OpenXML files (odt, docx, etc.)
Last modified: 2020-11-11 19:12:39 UTC
Not sure - but I think so - earlier versions were able to open those files - renamed plain zip files - so this might be a regression. When opening any of those zipped document files with file-roller (either via file open, open from nautilus or from command line (gnome-open $file or file-roller $file) file-roller complains it can not open due to unknown archive type. But they are just the most basic zip files, and if any file-roller should be able to handle those. If not clear: this comes handy when examining the contents of those files for various reasons, e.g. to check the XML or images within. Btw: the gnome file selector lists e.g. odt files when set to 'all archives', so it is pretty surprising when file-roller refuses to open this "archive".
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