File Roller
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File Roller is the archive manager of the GNOME desktop environment. It can extract, view, create and modify archives. File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip.
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- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
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- Linux
- Flathub
- GNOME
- Linux Mobile
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Corey Daley added File Roller as alternative to Purrchiver
Ihor July added File Roller as alternative to App Archiver
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unpk added File Roller as alternative to unpk.app
Paul added File Roller as alternative to Zipora
Paul added File Roller as alternative to ZIP Protect- 3F1 updated File Roller
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I'm a big fan of Linux and have been using it consistently as my desktop daily driver since 2012. In that time, I've used a lot of software and these are the picks I come back to consistently. I don't live in the terminal with a tiling window manager, but also don't fear the command line.
There are lots of opinions and lists for terminal-centric Linux operators, hard core developers, and free software enthusiasts, but I haven't seen many for casual users just looking to do boring stuff. This is my humble list which includes practical applications, system tools to keep things running, and details on terminal specific software I use.
I'm not going to list Linux distros here because no matter what I am using because nearly all of these can be found in Fedora, Debian, and Arch derived distros (which is most beginner-friendly distros).
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For mobile devices and low-end Xeon/Vega iGPU machines with little or zero Vulkan support.
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Multi-threading request is 3 year old... First multi-core processor was in 2001...
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/issues/5
As of 2024, drag and drop still does not work under Wayland. This has been way more inconvenient than I thought it would be. I have tried other major Linux archivers and file managers, and the only combination that supported d&d under Wayland was Ark and Dolphin (both from KDE). How hard is making d&d work under Wayland? I can't believe that the Gnome desktop team do not provide a good archive application instead of adding new novelty apps ( https://apps.gnome.org/en-GB/ ). I mean, isn't dealing with archive files what most computer users do often? They should prioritise things in the correct order.
It's been FIVE years it has been reported that File Roller can't drag and drop files from itself to Nautilus, Nemo, Dolphin in my case, and probably other file managers. It makes File Roller extremely cumbersome (unusable imo) to use as you can only extract by manually selecting the output's path. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776635
It is very stable overall, but there is no indication of progress (at least there wasn't with the one-large-file 7-Zip archives I've had to extract).
You can get the Updated GTK-3 version of File Roller on Gnome website. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller
And the lastest stable release is the 17-Aug-2016.
Well, it supports a lot of archive types via plugins. But with current GTK3 incarnation, it become typically quite ugly outside of Gnome3 Desktop and has a minimum on options.
I understand your point. It'd be nice if there was just one toolkit used throughout all linuxes so all apps look great on each.