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Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Feb 17, 2025

As I batch-triaged #FileRoller's bug reports this week-end, I wondered about the presence or absence of password protection / encryption features. Nautilus could do encrypted zip, but File Roller wouldn't. Odd 🤔

After lots of further digging through #GNOME tickets, docs, and trial-&-error… I found the bug.
It turns out the sensitivity of those per-file-format options row widgets was set only on dialog creation, not updated when switching formats 😅

Filed, now fixed:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/issues/291

Encryption and splitting volumes options rows sensitivity is only set based on pre-selected file format when opening the New Archive dialog, never updated (#291) · Issues · GNOME / File Roller · GitLab

Tested with version 44.4 from Fedora 41, version 44.4 from Flathub, and the nightly flatpak version. All are affected in the same way. I was spending...

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Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Feb 16, 2025

Since I'm an evil evil #GNOME #UX designer sometimes, and I spent the whole week-end hearing unfounded complaints about how File Roller supposedly removed features (it didn't), I'm taking the opportunity to suggest actually removing two buttons from File Roller's toolbar… by using a breadcrumbs pathbar like Nautilus

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/issues/289

#FileRoller #GNOMEFiles #minimalism #design

Simplify navigation across the subfolders hierarchy using a breadcrumbs buttons pathbar (like Nautilus) (#289) · Issues · GNOME / File Roller · GitLab

As of version 44.4 and older, when in "View as a folder" mode, File Roller shows a pathbar as an editable text entry, with an "Up" and "Home"...

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fabienm Jun 27, 2024

#Ubuntu 24.04 : Toutes les applications #Gnome sont buggées, et ce ne sont même pas des #snap (#FileRoller, #GnomeTextEditor, #GnomeSystemMonitor). Et toujours pas de mises à jour...
Ca marche moins bien que les anciennes versions sous #Focal !

Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)May 7, 2023

After 7 months of work & 110 commits changing 5k LoC over 77 files, the #GTK4 port of #FileRoller is now complete 🎊 🎉 This was done mostly by Paolo Bacchilega, the experienced maintainer of File Roller and gThumb.

Major toolkit version upgrades can be a huge undertaking even for seemingly simple #GNOME #GTK apps and experienced devs. Be patient with your #opensource software #developers. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/merge_requests/90

GTK4 port (!90) · Merge requests · GNOME / File Roller · GitLab

This is File-Roller ported to GTK4. There is some space for improvement as we still use some deprecated API such as GSimpleAsyncResult and GtkTreeView, also we link to...

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omg! ubuntu Dec 18, 2022

Ubuntu considers removing Archive Manager from default installs https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/12/ubuntu-23-04-archive-manager-remove #ubuntu #fileroller

Ubuntu Devs Consider Removing 'Archive Manager'

Is shipping the file roller utility unnecessary now that Nautilus, Ubuntu's default file manager, can compress and extract common archive formats?

OMG! Ubuntu!

OMG! Ubuntu!Dec 18, 2022

Ubuntu Considers Removing ‘Archive Manager’ from Default Install

Should Ubuntu drop the Archive Manager app from the default install? That’s the suggestion put forward for community discussion by a prominent Ubuntu developer. The reasoning is that since Nautilus lets us create/extract commonly-compressed formats (including the ubiquitous .zip and tarballs) shipping a separate app that does the same thing (albeit with more formats) is unnecessary. There’s precedent for such a move: GNOME 41 dropped the the Archive Manager app (often referred to by the package name file-roller) from GNOME Core. Their reasoning was similar: Nautilus now does it, so why duplicate functionality in the standard seed? Users with advanced
#Dev #News #Development #FileRoller #LunarLobster #Ubuntu23_04