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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- GNOME
Features
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Comments and Reviews
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.
Reply written Sep 4, 2015