File Roller Explained

GNOME
File Roller
Developer:Paolo Bacchilega
Released:[1] [2]
Programming Language:C
Operating System:Unix-like
Genre:File archiver
License:GPL-2.0-or-later

File Roller (formerly GNOME Archive Manager) is a file archiver for the GNOME desktop environment.[3]

File Roller can:[4]

File formats

Supporting the archive formats requires external back-end programs and libraries,[5] it supports:[6]

Limitations

File Roller does not give the advanced options to compress using different levels of compression via GUI (High, Normal, Low/Fast, etc.). This can be set however using dconf-editor, or the old gconf-editor on GNOME 2.

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: File Roller (Old news) . 2016-02-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20021211000211/http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/news.html . 2002-12-11.
  2. Web site: Initial revision (3d7d6e3c) · Commits · GNOME / File Roller · GitLab.
  3. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/file-roller-makes-archiving-easy/ "File Roller makes archiving easy"
  4. https://archive.today/20051126213657/http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rhel-sbs-en-4/s1-managing-compressing-archiving.html/ "3.4.1. Using File Roller"
  5. http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/features.html File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities
  6. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/blob/master/data/supported-mime-types GNOME GitLab: File "supported-mime-types"