file roller support status for 7-zip files unclear
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| file-roller (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Low
|
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: file-roller
File Roller is a nice program for browsing the contents of various archive files without having to extract the whole lot.
Recently I attempted to open a 7-zip file in Ubuntu Hardy by double-clicking. It opened into File Roller but then File Roller complained that it did not have support for 7-zip.
What was not clear at this time was that File Roller did indeed support the 7-zip format; all that I needed to do was to install the 'p7zip' package using Synaptic.
It would be good if the File Roller error message could be patched to advise the user that they need to install the missing command-line tool in order for its support of that file format to work correctly.
Even better would be for a dialog box to ask the user if they want to install the appropriate package(s), as with Totem and Gstreamer.
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in file-roller: | |
| assignee: | nobody → desktop-bugs |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Invalid |
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.