Re: [Nautilus-list] nautilus/gnome-vfs interaction

["Shahms E. King" <shahms shahms com>]

Wouldn't something like this (properly bonobized of course) be a good
basis for a viewer? or should this be done at the gnome-vfs level?

--Shahms

On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 10:44, Steve Tyler wrote:
> As a work-around, try using file roller
> (http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/), it's reasonably functional.  Once
> it's installed, all you need to do is specify the use of file roller as
> the default app for tar, tar.gz, zip type files.
> 
> It's not the ideal solution but it works!
> 
> Also, there are nautilus scripts
> (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~smueller/Nautilus-Scripts) that can
> assist in the management of archive files.
> 
> Yours, in support of Nautilus,
> 
> Steve 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 22:47, Darin Adler wrote:
> 
>     On 1/23/02 10:01 PM, "Dan Berger" <dberger ix netcom com> wrote:
>     
>     > Double-Clicking on a .tar.gz, or a .rpm, or a .zip, or any number of
>     > file types that gmc (or more accurately gnome-vfs) groks results in the
>     > "I don't have a viewer" message.
>     
>     These are missing features in Nautilus. People started on them, but they
>     didn't get done for 1.0.
>     
>     > Am I missing something?  Is there some misconfiguration that might
>     > explain this behavior?  I like the look and feel of nautilus, but it
>     > seems, in many ways, a huge step backward in functionality from gmc.
>     
>     This is a missing feature, yes. And it wouldn't be too hard for someone to
>     add it to Nautilus. I understand that it's a feature you really like in gmc,
>     and I'm sorry no one contributed the corresponding feature for Nautilus.
>     
>     > Any constructive suggestions appreciated.
>     
>     I'd greatly appreciate any help you can offer to get this feature
>     implemented for future versions of Nautilus.
>     
>         -- Darin
>     
>     
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