Comment 26 for bug 13199
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| Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen) wrote | #26 |
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(Get the code!)
I found Xarchiver to be a capable replacement.
It doesn't drag & drop as well, but at least you can press the 'extract' button and actually have some files extracted.
With file-roller there is currently -no way- to extract files.
You can't drag & drop, clicking the extract button brings up a dialog that refuses to extract files. Hence: you can't extract files.
At least one of the bugs in file-roller should be fixed before feisty's release or the whole package should be removed from the default install (preferbly replaced by Xarchiver).
PS. Why can't we use an older version of file-roller? At least the extract-button used to work. See also bug:
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It doesn't work anymore either. So 99% of the users won't be able to extract files. I would prefer a fix to the extract-button thingie at least, but otherwise I strongly suggest we replace this package with Xarchiver.
If it doesn't get fixed, I know I will be replacing this on all the desktops I manage. (including a small office). I really can't tell these people to 'workaround' bugs and advocate the use of Ubuntu instead of Windows at the same time.
Besides, if a package is useless because its core function isn't working, what's the point of keeping it in the repo's. But that's another discussion. (kicking completely broken packages out the repo's)