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Idea #3520: Improving File Roller



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Written by letronje the 6 Mar 08 at 12:36. Category: System.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Description
(a)

When the user right clicks on an archive file like zip,rar,7z,etc, the options provided are :

1) Open with archive manager
2) Extract here

It would be nice to have the following menu option:
extract to

(b)

When opening an archive, file roller seems to read the entire archive in one go(or file roller is very slow in reading list of files in an archive). So, if the archive is really big, the user doesn't get to see the list of files & dir in it unless the entire archive hierarchy is fetched. I think WinRAR shows the list of stuff at the top level in the archive & reads the remaining archive hierarchy in background & the list shown in the UI is updated incrementally .

(c)

The File roller UI for creating archives by right clicking on folders is too simple and needs some more options like:

1) Delete files after archiving
2) options for selecting compression level
3) options for splitting archive across multiple files
4) password protection

Again Win RAR has a good UI for this

(d) There could be a context menu option for adding selected file(s)/folders(s) to an existing archive. Something like 'Add to archive'

(e) There could be one click archive creation shortcuts in the context menu. For e.g clicking on the folder with name 'backup' gives you options like 'Create backup.rar / backup.7z, backup.tar, backup.tar.gz, backup.tar.bz2,etc'.
File-roller could then have a UI to change the default compression parameters for each of these shortcuts.
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hunt.topher wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 22:16
Here's another FileRoller feature request - I'm surprised this hasn't already been mentioned: dragging files directly onto FileRoller to add them to an archive?

terrormafia wrote on the 7 Mar 08 at 10:45
1) Delete files after archiving
too dangerous IMO, can easily be done separately
2) options for selecting compression level
modern computers are fast, why not just set to maximum?

I agree with the rest.

Jeisson wrote on the 15 Mar 08 at 07:53
I agree. More useful features are wanted:

* Drag and drop a compressed file from a file manager window to another with the right button of the mouse, a pop-up dialog gives you several options, like "Extract here".

* Automatically compress to .tar.7z

* Easily exclude files or directories using a common nomenclature (regular expressions or something similar).

* Save the compress options into a preset

In a few words, the default Linux file compressor should import several successful features of other programs, like WinRAR.

Lex wrote on the 29 Mar 08 at 11:35
We should keep it simple. I like 7zip user interface. It is simple and it provides most features and mainly good feedback to user. File Roller really needs to improve feedback to user.

luke.anto wrote on the 6 May 08 at 20:00
I think some preset options would be nice; for example:

* compression method (already mentioned)
* default unzip directory (optional, if you prefer, yuo can use the last unzip directory, like now)

naja wrote on the 11 May 08 at 20:06
yes,

steal the idea from the winrar context menu... I'v always missed it.

And have it default support both archiving and extracting for as many formats as possible, at least open source ones like 7z

In fact, just creating a good GUI and nautilus integration for the 7z software would probably be a delightful solution...

naja wrote on the 11 May 08 at 20:06
oh,

and make that default and get rid of the dreadful archive manager...

garfield168 wrote on the 16 May 08 at 10:24
absolutly right: password protection und compression level settings by right click on the files like in winrar or 7Zip.
I always missed this too! A must have!!!

PsySonic wrote on the 30 May 08 at 12:42
I think there should be "advanced options" button which expand current simple gnome file roller dialog. I understand that gnome and it's utilities should be simple, but compression level or multiple volume archive is necessary. I like Krusader compress dialog. It's simple but useful.
Often you need to send large file to windows user, and you need to split it. But if you just split with console command, no one knows how to join file again. I like to make solid archives to but it's not so necessary.
P.s. 1. SоЯЯУ мУ eИglish. 2. Maybe we should to ask about it gnome team, not Ubuntu?

mistergeorge wrote on the 10 Jun 08 at 18:52
For me the drap and drop feature is really really needed.

Cracknel wrote on the 28 Jul 08 at 16:13
I would really want to see the "split into multiple volumes" option for the formats that support it.
I really need this option almost every day. I work with huge files and when the Internet connection dies while transferring them I have to get it from the beginning.


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