regarding the nemo file-roller/engrampa/caja/xarchiver thing

brent

and this thread in devtracker: https://github.com/getsolus/packages/issues/4949

All my extract stuff/targz/compressed work is handled by nemo file-roller from the beginning..never engrampa/caja..and I've been very satisfied with default nemo. I have Budgie.

Is there something wrong with that? I know the DEV stepped away from Engrampa. Or something. But why do I need xarchiver? Is there something wrong with file-roller? Why do you want to replace it? It's always worked fine for me. Especially since nemo is the default (and great) file manager.

Thanks, I know I'm missing something. Hence the nature of constantly-changing info & inability to keep up with it sometimes.

infinitymdm

brent IIRC nemo plays nice with file-roller and caja plays nice with engrampa. Pretty sure both pairs are forks of old GNOME tools anyways, so they have a lot in common.

Not sure about xarchiver. Looks like it's the Xfce archive management tool? So same task as file-roller and engrampa.

Staudey

brent file-roller is the GNOME archiver project, which is continually updated to depend on their latest tech stack (e.g. GTK4, libadwaita, etc.). This leads to situation like happened a while ago, where it doesn't support drag and drop to or from GTK3-based file managers, or depends on libraries/frameworks that the rest of a more traditional desktop doesn't (theming-issues included).

Previously engrampa was the choice for such more traditional desktops like MATE and now XFCE, but since MATE has some serious man power troubles and development slowed down (or to a halt), the XFCE edition needs something with continued support, hence the switch to xarchiver.

If you're fine with file-roller you are free to continue using it in any case.

(all of the above is just from what I understand/think as an outsider)

brent

Staudey If you're fine with file-roller you are free to continue using it in any case.

that's it, thanks for jogging my memory.
it was the drag and drop thing (I don't do that or use that in compression/uncompress) that vexed some file-roller users that led to engrampa, and it's rev dep, Caja...then to Xarchiver.

You got it @Staudey --if Budgie and Solus and me consider the (old?) default nemo file-rollerto be a sound app that I should continue using, that's what I wanted to know. I will continue using it.