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  • November 29, 2020 at 2:06 pm #46088
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      Would it be possible to replace Archive Manager in the next update? I think it is a very bad choice for being included by default. The GUI is completely out of place, as it does not get any window decorations, and the application tries (very poorly) to draw them itself. This is due to this being a GNOME application that uses GTK3, and as such is not supposed to be used anywhere else than in GNOME itself (from the viewpoint of the developers).

      There are many alternatives that actually do respect basic standards, such as sever side window decorations (Xarchiver comes to mind, but there are more).

      November 29, 2020 at 7:27 pm #46127
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        the packaged name is “file-roller”.

        I applaud your recommendation and recognize these 2 alternative candidates:

        xarchiver (installation, into antiX19 Full, consumes only 1.5MB disk space)
        it provides a good (granular) set of preferences.
        its usability seems okay. (I wish the toolbar could be configured to display text labels)

        engrampa (archive manager from mate-desktop project) installation consumes 15MB disk space.
        IMO, its usability seems fine

        December 2, 2020 at 2:19 pm #46342
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          fladd wrote:

          The GUI is completely out of place, as it does not get any window decorations, and the application tries (very poorly) to draw them itself.

          fladd wrote:

          Xarchiver comes to mind

          Xarchiver is excellent, however, if that is your problem with file-roller, Xfce is saying they will implement CSD as well.

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          December 2, 2020 at 2:57 pm #46348
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            I do not know why it says skidoo wrote it.

            December 2, 2020 at 3:06 pm #46352
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              For some reason the quoted text referred to post 46127 (skidoo) instead of 46088.

              I corrected it and the citations appear to be correct now.

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              September 16, 2021 at 7:38 pm #67341
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                I would like to bring this up again. It still looks very out of place in the new beta.

                September 16, 2021 at 8:37 pm #67347
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                  Users can always replace it with whatever they want.

                  Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

                  antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

                  September 17, 2021 at 2:47 am #67370
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                    screenshots of file-roller GUI here: https://screenshots.debian.net/package/file-roller

                    screenshots ofxarchiver GUI here: https://screenshots.debian.net/package/xarchiver

                    fladd, have you installed xarchiver under antiX21?
                    Are its screenshots still accurate, or has it (also) been packaged by debian as GTK3 (so now has the same, icky, CSD headerbar seen in file-roller)?

                    September 18, 2021 at 12:01 am #67423
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                      Xarchiver on Antix21 is GTK3-based (as evident by the way the menu looks), but it does not have a CSD headerbar.

                      GTK-3 apps doing there own thing is really annoying and disrupts coherence in the system. Maybe time to look for Qt alternatives for everything…

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