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Re: Applications by default: Replace xarchiver by file-roller

 

On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:23:14 +0100
Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Am Sonntag 21 November 2010, 11:40:08 schrieb Julien Lavergne:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I would like to open the discussion on the archiver.
> > On my 2 systems using Lubuntu, one of the first thing I do is replacing
> > xarchiver by file-roller. For me, the GUI is better and it's easier to
> > use. There is also no extra GNOME depends.
> > 
> > I would like to know if people tested it on a small configuration, to
> > see if the behaviour is also good enough.
> > 
> 
> +1 for this. 
> file-roller seems the only graphical application that handles rar archives 
> ,that need a password to list its contents,  properly. All the others seem to 
> fail here.  
>
This is the only obvious advantage of file-roller over Xarchiver.  I’ll try file- on an older machine and see if there are an obvious problems.


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