Temporary files are created on the current directory

[Manuel Teira]

If you try to create a new compressed file, selecting some files, right click
and new compressed file, the temporary files are created in the current
directory (for example, on the Desktop). I think this is ugly and the files
should be created on a temp directory.
Of course, once the compressed file is created, the temporal files dissapear.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153642: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153642

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've reported the issue upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/153642

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

patch to correct this issue. /tmp is used (the problem was specific to tar archives as far as I could tell, because get_temp_dir() in src/fr-utils.c gave a "/tmp/blah" temp dir).

$ apt-get source file-roller
$ cat ~/fr-temp.patch | patch -p0

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for the work on that. As said on IRC that would be nice to have a GNOME gconf key for that so all the applications could use the same gconf key

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

Sebastien, you might be interested in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316527 .

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Fixed in CVS.

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

Fixed in edgy.

[Alex Tasin (alextasin)]

it is not possibile to create archives on data partition larger than the remaining space on the root partition

sorry for my english

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/1257884