Add more Compress options

Bug #1672161 reported by Wise Melon
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Nautilus
Expired
Wishlist
Ubuntu GNOME
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

I have a system running Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 with GNOME 3.22 and I have found that in this version of GNOME if one right-clicks on a file or folder or a group of them and goes to "Compress..." that they are provided with 3 different formats to compress into, however the options which allow splitting of large archives into smaller ones as well as the ability to encrypt them with a password are gone. This can obviously still be done through the CLIs of the various tools, however it would be useful to have such features accessible as they used to be through the GUI. Perhaps this is a side-effect of making all Nautilus activities central to the Nautilus GUI? Because I think I remember it possibly opening another program in the past which had these options.

Regardless of what it and how it did it in the past, these are vital options which are missing and I think should be added back for ease of use.

I am fine with using the CLI, but many users are not.

Changed in nautilus:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

You're using Nautilus 3.22 which isn't in Ubuntu yet.

If you need something besides .tar.xz, .zip and .7z, you can just use Archive Manager which is currently still installed by default. I think .tar.xz and .zip should work for most people and having a very large list of file types to choose from isn't that great.

https://csorianognome.wordpress.com/2016/08/31/nautilus-3-22-news-changes/

Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
Changed in ubuntu-gnome:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
summary: - Have better archive handling
+ Add more Compress options
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
Changed in nautilus:
importance: Medium → Wishlist
status: Confirmed → Expired
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