File Roller

Last updated
File Roller
Developer(s) Paolo Bacchilega
Initial releaseMay 12, 2001;23 years ago (2001-05-12) [1] [2]
Stable release
44.3 [3]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 19 May 2024;2 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.

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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. http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/features.html File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities
  7. GNOME GitLab: File "supported-mime-types"