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

 

File roller +1.
It doesn't have gnome dependency now and it does works better.

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Stevo Vukovic <stevovukovic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> +1 for file-roller > xarchiver bug:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xarchiver/+bug/681400
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> bug in file-roller not present on NFS network share
> ________________________________
> From: Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: lubuntu-desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Mon, November 22, 2010 9:20:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Applications by default: Replace xarchiver by
> file-roller
>
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:35:24 +0000
> Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 03:43:00 -0800 (PST)
>> Stevo Vukovic <stevovukovic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > -1
>> > Recently,  file-roller has an bug (repeated regression) when extracting
>> > multi-part  rar from network share (samba, sftp...). Better stick with
>> > xarchiver
>> > for some time.
>> >
>> >
>> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/639883
>> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/386795
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> At first I thought this problem wasn’t worth worrying about until I
>> realised it’s what I normally do.  I download files to my server then
>> extract them to the machine I intend to use them on.  Hopefully the
>> regression will revert during Natty’s development
>>
>>
> Forgot to add my benchmarks.
> Both take around 12-14 MiB but, Xarchiver is a slow CPU hog taking 4½ mins.
> to extract an 84 MiB ISO from a BZ2 file using 70% CPU while file-roller
> took 40 secs. and used 45% CPU. This was teh worst of 3 tests but Xarchiver
> was quite a bit slower throughout.  Lets hope file-roller gets sorted.
>
> --
> Steve Cook (Yorvyk)
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