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Idea
#2512: Add Drag-and-Drop ability to Archive Manager
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Written by diablo75 the 2 Mar 08 at 16:28.
Category: Look and Feel.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Something nit-picky I've always hated about Archive Manager is the fact that I can't extract files to a folder or to my desktop by simply dragging and dropping them somewhere (like I can with a Windows box and any archiving program with a GUI, like Winzip or WinRAR).
Sure, I can click "Extract Files" and then browse through folders to find the path I want, but if I could drag and drop to extract from (and add to) archives, it would sure save me a lot of time. And possible save newbies a little frustration.
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ldgregory wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 17:05
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Not voting up or down on this one, but by Archive Manager do you mean the default "File Roller" (Help / About)? If so, it allows me to drag and drop files anywhere I have write permissions.
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flomar wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 17:27
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Hi,
same thing here, using Ubuntu 7.10 with Gnome 2.20 i am able to extract via drag & drop from 'file-roller'.
Flo
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arodier wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 17:31
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Idem for me
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Pekkalainen wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 18:17
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Drag and drop works here too.
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diablo75 wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 01:00
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By archive manager, I'm talking about the "Archive Manager", found in Applications>Accessories. By default, this program is not shown, and you have to go to System>Preferences>Main Menu to reveal it in that menu. It works very much like Winzip.
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GGLucas wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 22:55
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File-roller has drag 'n drop support, but only if nautilus is in icon view, doesn't work in list view for some reason. I agree with making it work in list view, it's annoying to have to switch back and forth just to extract some files.
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naja wrote on the 11 May 08 at 20:03
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>File-roller has drag 'n drop support, but only if nautilus is in icon view, doesn't work in list view for some reason.
It's things like that, isn't. Genius invented ubuntu...
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