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Written by 64kb on 2025-01-20 at 22:03

@BrodieOnLinux remember the first 15 years or so of file-roller (I might be exaggerating - but don't think so) where you could drag files from the archive into nautilus ?

I love newer Gtk and Wayland, but every time I have to decompress things from an archive I curse this, for what 5 years, maybe the last 8?

When will this come back ?

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Written by 64kb on 2025-01-20 at 22:06

@BrodieOnLinux oh man AND as I do this, I remember that I can't browse windows file shares in the file dialogue that comes up when I hit extract.

Before MS changed from SMB1 to SMB2/3 you automatically get lists of Samba shares in Gtk dialogues and nautilus.

This is only just coming back with WSDD on Linux, but loads of dialogues only browse local files, including file-roller...

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Written by 64kb on 2025-01-20 at 22:08

@BrodieOnLinux AND (for what feels like two decades) Firefox.

In Windows programs, I can not only browse remote file shares in file browsers, but the file browser widget is so over the top - that I can paste a URL into any old file browser and get that downloaded and opened (yes, in notepad).

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Written by 64kb on 2025-01-20 at 22:09

@BrodieOnLinux apologies for this unsolicited rant, I've been using Linux since the 90s and sometimes this stuff is just a pain - but maybe we all use this stuff because we are masochists.

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