From: Thomas L. <ta...@ec...> - 2005-01-03 16:50:30
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On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:33:59AM -0500, Conrad Lloyd-Knight wrote: > Hi! > > I'm new to rox-filer and quite like the interface. In order to make it > more useful, though, I would like to be able to click on, for example, > a .tar.gz file and view the contents as if it were a directory. If I'm > not mistaken, this functionality is implemented through a VFS. > > The documentation mentions "avfs", but the site linked to does not > appear to have a version updated in the past few years. While > "configure" was running before the compile, though, I noticed it was > looking for GnomeVFS. I installed this (and the umpteen support > libraries it needed) and recompiled rox-filer, and the install.sh > script verified it had been built with GnomeVFS support this > time. However, when I run this version, I still cannot open archives. Currently, gnome-vfs is only used for working out file types from their contents. It would be good to allow using some of its other functions, though (ROX-Filer used to support gmc's VFS system, so it shouldn't be that hard). Anyone want to have a go? -- Dr Thomas Leonard http://rox.sourceforge.net GPG: 9242 9807 C985 3C07 44A6 8B9A AE07 8280 59A5 3CC1 |