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  1. As I batch-triaged #FileRoller's bug reports this week-end, I wondered about the presence or absence of password protection / encryption features. Nautilus could do encrypted zip, but File Roller wouldn't. Odd 🤔

    After lots of further digging through #GNOME tickets, docs, and trial-&-error… I found the bug.
    It turns out the sensitivity of those per-file-format options row widgets was set only on dialog creation, not updated when switching formats 😅

    Filed, now fixed:
    gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-ro

  2. Since I'm an evil evil #GNOME #UX designer sometimes, and I spent the whole week-end hearing unfounded complaints about how File Roller supposedly removed features (it didn't), I'm taking the opportunity to suggest actually removing two buttons from File Roller's toolbar… by using a breadcrumbs pathbar like Nautilus :blobcatcoffee:

    gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-ro

    #FileRoller #GNOMEFiles #minimalism #design

  3. After 7 months of work & 110 commits changing 5k LoC over 77 files, the #GTK4 port of #FileRoller is now complete 🎊 🎉 This was done mostly by Paolo Bacchilega, the experienced maintainer of File Roller and gThumb.

    Major toolkit version upgrades can be a huge undertaking even for seemingly simple #GNOME #GTK apps and experienced devs. Be patient with your #opensource software #developers. gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-ro

  4. Ubuntu Considers Removing ‘Archive Manager’ from Default Install

    Should Ubuntu drop the Archive Manager app from the default install? That’s the suggestion put forward for community discussion by a prominent Ubuntu developer. The reasoning is that since Nautilus lets us create/extract commonly-compressed formats (including the ubiquitous .zip and tarballs) shipping a separate app that does the same thing (albeit with more formats) is unnecessary. There’s precedent for such a move: GNOME 41 dropped the the Archive Manager app (often referred to by the package name file-roller) from GNOME Core. Their reasoning was similar: Nautilus now does it, so why duplicate functionality in the standard seed? Users with advanced :sys_more_orange:
    #Dev #News #Development #FileRoller #LunarLobster #Ubuntu23_04

    :sys_omgubuntu: omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/12/ubuntu