File Roller, an archive manager for the GNOME desktop environment which can be used to create, modify, and view the content of archives, is now at version 3.6.1.1.
Highlights of File Roller 3.6.1.1:
• A crash that occurred on startup has been fixed;
• .ar files are now registered as supported;
• Galician and French documentation's tags have been fixed;
• Creation of hard link
File Roller, an archive manager for the GNOME desktop environment which can be used to create, modify, and view the content of archives, is now at version 3.6.1.
Highlights of File Roller 3.6.1:
• The app menu is installed only if there's the gnome-shell showing it;
• Nautilus extension "Compress" doesn't offer .gz anymore;
• Creation of hard links when using libarchive has been
How can I get thunar to recognise that .xz files are archives and so add the file-roller items (Extract Here... etc) to the context menu?
Calligra 2.5.4, an integrated suite of applications for office, creative and management needs, has been released on November 21.
Highlights of Calligra 2.5.4:
• The calculate action has been disabled when calculating to avoid a potential crash;
• A crash which occurred when calculating schedule (in rcps_solver_solve) has been fixed;
• A crash when two dependent tasks are deleted i
Gnome Desktop, a library that contains APIs which can be useful for a few applications, but which do not belong to GTK+, has reached version 3.7.90.
Highlights of Gnome Desktop 3.7.90:
• The introspection generation for Vala has been fixed;
• The introspectability of GnomeBg has been repaired;
• Break ABI and API to fix reliance of the API on an Xorg bug;
• The standard GObje
QTGZManager, a powerful tool to manage Slackware Linux 1 TGZ/TXZ packages has reached version 1.0 RC2.
QTGZManager 1.0 RC2 comports just like a file manager and basically consists of four configurable panels.
Highlights of QTGZManager 1.0 RC2:
• A crash which occurred when a malformed package was detected, has been repaired in this version;
• Support for TDE – Trinity Desktop En
PeaZip 4.9.1, an open source file and archive manager that can be used to extract, create and convert multiple archives at once, has been announced.
PeaZip 4.9.1 is no more than a maintenance release and there are no new features.
GNOME Control Center, GNOME's main interface for configuration of various aspects of your desktop, is now at version 3.8.1.
Highlights of GNOME Control Center 3.8.1:
• The translation of the window title has been fixed;
• An obsolete libnotify dependency has been removed;
• Asynchronous calls are no longer canceled when exiting the panel;
• A crash due to NVidia's GLX impleme
PCMan File Manager, an application developed by Hong Jen Yee from Taiwan which is meant to be a replacement for Nautilus, Konqueror and Thunar, is now at version 1.0.2.
PCMan File Manager or PCManFM is already integrated in a large number of distributions, especially because it's a stable version.
Highlights of PCMan File Manager 1.0.2:
• Underscores (mnemonics) have been corrected on ever