File Roller

Last updated
File Roller
Developer Paolo Bacchilega
Initial releaseMay 12, 2001;24 years ago (2001-05-12) [1] [2]
Stable release
44.3 [3]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 19 May 2024;19 months ago (19 May 2024)
Preview release
n/a
Repository
Written in C
Operating system Unix-like
Type File archiver
License GPL-2.0-or-later
Website wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller

File Roller (formerly GNOME Archive Manager) is a file archiver for the GNOME desktop environment. [4]

Contents

File Roller can: [5]

File formats

Supporting the archive formats requires external back-end programs and libraries, [6] it supports: [7]

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

References

  1. ↑ "File Roller (Old news)". Archived from the original on 2002-12-11. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
  2. ↑ "Initial revision (3d7d6e3c) · Commits · GNOME / File Roller · GitLab".
  3. ↑ "44.3 · Tags · GNOME / File Roller". 19 May 2024. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  4. ↑ "File Roller makes archiving easy" Techrepublic. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  5. ↑ "3.4.1. Using File Roller" Centos.org. Retrieved 25 November 2013
  6. ↑ "File Roller". fileroller.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
  7. ↑ "data/supported-mime-types · master · GNOME / File Roller · GitLab". GitLab. 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2024-09-18.