Under Linux, it's bsdtar but, under some *BSD systems, it may be tar.

I think we'll use bsdtar in more cases in future (for now, it's used only for rpm archives). So, it's better to add an option for choosing it outside Linux. The option shouldn't be visible inside Linux.

Hello, will there be an assembly for Windows? The program will be a console or a graphical interface?

Recently, AUR has started to make use of zstd (Zstandard-compressed). I think it'll be used more and more in other places too.

For Arqiver, its support can be easily added (because tar covers it) but I still don't know about lxqt-archiver, although it should be possible theoretically.

I was packaging this for Ubuntu and I noticed that it installs files in /usr/libexec unlike any other LXQt package.

I'm not sure how, but please let it use /usr/lib instead 😃

Hi

is it possible that lxqt-archiver can remember the last settings?

And why isn't the archive deleted beforehand if I want to overwrite it? It is constantly adding new files.

The version of lxqt-archiver is 0.2.0
LXQt version: 0.15.0
Qt: 5.15.0
PCLInuxOS 2020 up to date
Kernel: 5.7.2

Regards
Daniel

Expected Behavior

Filename input to be filled with an appropiate filename for the case.

Current Behavior

Empty filename box. Also, its need to type the file extension. Selecting from dropdown is not working.

Possible Solution

If a file or directory is selected, its name. If a group of file inside a directory selected, the name of the parent directory holding them.

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. Right click a file on pcmanfm-qt, select compress

Context

The idea is not having to select the directory to create the archive nor type its name.

System Information

lxqt-0.1.0 latest git changes, the same for pcmanfm-qt and libfm-qt

Expected Behavior

Show whether an item is a symlink.

Current Behavior

There's no info on symlinks.

Possible Solution

I don't know yet.

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. Open an archive containing some symlinks in lxqt-archiver.
2. In the left pane, go to a dir containing symlink(s) (you should have extracted the archive in the first place to know that).
3. Look at the right pane.

No info about symlinks.

The reason is that lxqt-archiver uses its own, customized file dialog.

Possible Solution

There are two solutions:

1. lxqt-archiver's file dialog should read its config from and writes them to LXQt file dialog's config file; or
2. It should have a separate config file.

1 has two problems, at least. lxqt-archiver's file dialog has more settings than LXQt file dialog. And its size may be bigger (we don't want to increase the size whenever we use lxqt-archiver).

2 has the obvious problem that the user expects to see the common settings respected by lxqt-archiver's file dialog.

I think a mixture of 1 and 2 may be the solution. It needs to be examined in more detail.

Currently, the text is elided when there's no space for it and the user needs to move the split-view handle to see it. With some archives, that may not be enough either, as they may contain too many nested folders.

Instead, it's better to add a horizontal scrollbar when needed.

Expected Behavior

According to #87 dropping a folder should be supported

Current Behavior

only dropping files, when DND a folder the result dropped folder is empty

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. Drag and drop a folder into anywhere in pcmanfm
2. The dropped folder is empty

System Information

• Distribution & Version: Void Linux, latest
• Kernel: 5.11.18_1
• Package version: 0.4.0

just a reminder for myself

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. Uninstall zip, archiver will not show it in the dropdown list
2. Create an archive named "test.zip"
3. hit "save"
4. it will crash and not save

It should warn about missing zip install instead.

Sorry for the hurry I'm in.

EDIT: the above is true for any suffix - existing or not - you choose, so test.xu test.pq, test.mp3

lxqt-archiver has no icons in toolbar.

System Information

• Distribution & Version: Arch Linux
• Kernel: 5.7.6-arch1-1
• DM: dwm-6.2
• Package version: lxqt-archiver 0.2.0

$ yay lxqt | grep Installed
42 aur/breeze-lxqt 1.4-1 (+15 0.00) (Installed)
22 community/qterminal 0.15.0-1 (222.4 KiB 932.6 KiB) [lxqt] (Installed)
21 community/pcmanfm-qt 0.15.1-1 (345.5 KiB 1.7 MiB) [lxqt] (Installed)
18 community/lxqt-themes 0.15.0-1 (3.1 MiB 3.6 MiB) [lxqt] (Installed)
5 community/lxqt-archiver 0.2.0-1 (200.6 KiB 784.5 KiB) [lxqt] (Installed)
2 community/lximage-qt 0.15.0-1 (158.4 KiB 664.5 KiB) [lxqt] (Installed)

$ yay icon | grep Installed
33 community/lxqt-themes 0.15.0-1 (3.1 MiB 3.6 MiB) [lxqt] (Installed)
7 extra/hicolor-icon-theme 0.17-2 (10.2 KiB 54.2 KiB) (Installed)
6 extra/gtk-update-icon-cache 1:3.24.21-1 (15.3 KiB 38.7 KiB) (Installed)
1 extra/adwaita-icon-theme 3.36.1-1 (10.7 MiB 22.3 MiB) (Installed)

$ yay theme | grep Installed
53 community/lxqt-themes 0.15.0-1 (3.1 MiB 3.6 MiB) [lxqt] (Installed)
50 community/lxappearance 0.6.3-2 (80.1 KiB 405.0 KiB) [lxde] (Installed)
43 community/gtk-chtheme 0.3.1-9 (10.8 KiB 35.0 KiB) (Installed)
22 extra/sound-theme-freedesktop 0.8-4 (370.0 KiB 461.2 KiB) (Installed)
15 extra/libcanberra 0.30+2+gc0620e4-3 (83.8 KiB 403.3 KiB) (Installed)
12 extra/hicolor-icon-theme 0.17-2 (10.2 KiB 54.2 KiB) (Installed)
11 extra/gtk-engines 2.21.0-5 (266.0 KiB 1.2 MiB) (Installed)
8 extra/gnome-themes-extra 3.28-2 (2.5 MiB 4.4 MiB) [gnome] (Installed)
4 extra/breeze-gtk 5.19.2-1 (237.6 KiB 7.4 MiB) [plasma] (Installed)
1 extra/adwaita-icon-theme 3.36.1-1 (10.7 MiB 22.3 MiB) (Installed)

$ yay qt5 | grep Installed
69 extra/qt5-x11extras 5.15.0-1 (14.5 KiB 40.6 KiB) [qt qt5] (Installed)
66 extra/qt5-webkit 5.212.0alpha4-6 (12.2 MiB 46.7 MiB) (Installed)
64 extra/qt5-webengine 5.15.0-2 (44.1 MiB 144.7 MiB) [qt qt5] (Installed)
63 extra/qt5-webchannel 5.15.0-1 (72.5 KiB 222.9 KiB) [qt qt5] (Installed)
58 extra/qt5-svg 5.15.0-1 (146.0 KiB 490.4 KiB) [qt qt5] (Installed)
54 extra/qt5-sensors 5.15.0-1 (177.1 KiB 908.8 KiB) [qt qt5] (Installed)
41 extra/qt5-location 5.15.0-1 (2.9 MiB 11.0 MiB) [qt qt5] (Installed)
40 extra/qt5-imageformats 5.15.0-1 (52.7 KiB 208.1 KiB) [qt qt5] (Installed)
35 extra/qt5-declarative 5.15.0-1 (4.8 MiB 24.7 MiB) [qt qt5] (Installed)
31 extra/qt5-base 5.15.0-3 (12.9 MiB 64.1 MiB) [qt qt5] (Installed)
15 extra/poppler-qt5 0.88.0-1 (187.7 KiB 666.0 KiB) (Installed)
6 extra/libdbusmenu-qt5 0.9.3+16.04.20160218-5 (159.2 KiB 600.9 KiB) (Installed)
2 extra/avahi 0.8+15+ge8a3dd0-1 (435.9 KiB 1.8 MiB) (Installed)

Currently In our desktop file we have Icon=application-x-archive.
The problem is that not all icon themes will provide this. And many distributions use hicolor as their fallback icon theme, which also doesn't provide this.
So one way would be to add a general archiver icon to hicolor, or our own icon to hicolor.

Another way would be to have our own archiver related icon, and ship that in the lxqt-archiver package and rely on this. Then we are not dependand on the icon theme.

To my knowledge application-x-archive is provided by:
breeze-icon-theme, oxygen-icon-theme and paper-icon theme.

https://pb.5id.eu/v8rc.build -- build log

Expected Behavior

If all root files of an archive exist in the extraction directory and lxqt-archiver isn't supposed to overwrite them, it should close its progressbar immediately.

Current Behavior

It hangs, showing a busy progressbar and taking a lot of CPU time. But, fortunately, it exits once the progressbar dialog is closed.

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. Create an archive from a file in its parent directory by using pcmanfm-qt's right-click menu.
2. Try to extract that archive in the same directory by using pcmanfm-qt's right-click menu ("Extract Here").

That's inherited from file-roller and, IMO, is annoying. I don't know if I could find its cause inside the C code but it should be fixed.

Expected Behavior

Decrypting a password protected .7z archive with an encrypted file list should work as expected.

Current Behavior

When trying to decrypt such an archive you're prompted with the error message 'password required' but it is not possible to insert the password. Unpacking fails. (The same archive can be unpacked with arqiver, xarchiver or file-roller.)

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. Create a .7z archive, protect it with a password, check 'encrypt file list'
2. Open the archive with lxqt-archiver
3. No insertion of password possible

System Information

• Distribution & Version: Arch Linux
• Kernel: 5.12.6-arch1-1
• Qt Version: 5.15.2
• libqtxdg Version: 3.7.1-1
• lxqt-build-tools Version: 0.9.0-1
• Package version: 0.4.0-1

Expected Behavior

Scrubbed output below in the "Context" section. Sorry, private data.
Listing of ACE files should only show "real" files, without including a "file" named "bytes (compressed x.xxxX)".

Current Behavior

A "file" named "bytes (compressed x.xxxX)" is shown in the file listing UI.

Possible Solution

Fix process_line function in fr-command-ace.c to stop when it encounters a line that starts with "listed: "

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. Get a .ace compressed archive somehow, or download WinAce Trial (like from softpedia.com) and make an archive. Calling this "test.ace".
2. Run unace v test.ace from a terminal and observe the output
3. Open "test.ace" from lxqt-archiver and observe the file listing
4. Observe that bytes (compressed x.xxxx) is shown as a filename

Context

Tried opening an ancient ACE archive from early 2000s with lxqt-archiver in 2020.
Output with filenames and numbers scrubbed:

UNACE v2.5     Copyright by ACE Compression Software       Jan 25 2020 21:01:27

processing archive /tmp/scrubbed.ace
created on xx.xx.xxxx with ver 2.0 by
*UNREGISTERED VERSION*
Contents of archive scrubbed.ace

  Date    Time     Packed      Size  Ratio  File

xx.xx.xx xx:xx     xxxxxxx   xxxxxxx   xx%  filename1
xx.xx.xx xx:xx     xxxxxxx   xxxxxxx   xx%  filename2
xx.xx.xx xx:xx     xxxxxxx   xxxxxxx   xx%  filename3

listed: 3 files, totaling x.xxxX bytes (compressed x.xxxX)

Using "unace 2.5-11" package from ArchLinux, which is "non-free" version

System Information

• Distribution & Version: ArchLinux
• Kernel: Irrelevant
• Qt Version: Irrelevant
• libqtxdg Version: Irrelevant
• lxqt-build-tools Version: Irrelevant
• Package version: lxqt-archiver 0.2.0

Best Regards

It's self-explanatory. Will do it alongside file filtering, because of common codes.

EDIT: Return may work for opening directories but Enter may not, or conversely, because QAbstractItemView::activated() doesn't always work with both of them.

Sometimes it can be helpful. In particular, I just experienced a problem with extracted script not having an executable bit set, which I almost deemed to be a bug in lxqt-archiver, but then I figured it's that the original archive didn't have it for some reason. Being able to look at file permissions inside an archive would've helped.

For example, here's what the column looks like for ark:

Latest lxqt-archiver, built from commit 5fbc6f7 only has these:

Configure runs Ok. Reconfigure fails

Expected Behavior

Successful reconfigure.

Current Behavior

CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/lxqt-build-tools/find-modules/FindGLIB.cmake:56 (get_filename_component):
  get_filename_component unknown component gio-2.0
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:34 (find_package)


-- Found GLIB: /usr/include/glib-2.0;/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include (found suitable version "2.56.3", minimum required is "2.50.0") 
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/lpereira/src/lxqt/lxqt-archiver/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. cmake ..
2. cmake ..

System Information

• Distribution & Version: git
• Kernel:
• Qt Version:
• libqtxdg Version: git
• lxqt-build-tools Version: git
• Package version: git

Followup to #158

Expected Behavior

Package content is visible (readonly).

Current Behavior

Generic dialog appears: "Command cannot be executed."

Possible Solution

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

Open any RPM archive.

Context

System Information

• Distribution & Version: Manjaro 20.1
• Kernel: 5.4
• Qt Version: 5.15.1
• libqtxdg Version: 3.5.0-3
• lxqt-build-tools Version: not relevant
• Package version: 0.2.0

Expected Behavior

Compiler warning via '-Wreturn-local-addr' probably shouldn't be triggered.

Current Behavior

src/archiveritem.cpp:82:39: warning: reference to local variable
  ‘results’ returned [-Wreturn-local-addr]
     std::vector<const ArchiverItem *> results;
                                       ^~~~~~~

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. Should probably happen during a normal build, in all currently available build configurations?

Context

At least on Gentoo, this triggers QA notices like so:

 * QA Notice: Package triggers severe warnings which indicate that it
 *            may exhibit random runtime failures.
 * [...]/work/lxqt-archiver-9999/src/archiveritem.cpp:82:39: warning:
  reference to local variable ‘results’ returned [-Wreturn-local-addr]

System Information

• Distribution & Version: Gentoo (Chiitoo Edition)
• Kernel: Linux 4.18.8 with Gentoo Patchset
• Qt Version: 5.12.0 (b7a123a6)
• libqtxdg Version: 374f4184
• lxqt-build-tools Version: c2c6539d
• Package version: f03bfe3

File filtering is a useful feature, especially with heavy archives and "Show All Files".

Expected Behavior

An easy-to-use file filtering.

Possible Solution

I've made one but should polish it.

Why is it needed?

1. Open Qt's source archive without extracting it.
2. Select "Show All Files".
3. Try to find qwidget.cpp in it.

You couldn't.

System Information

Latest git LXQt.

As a forgetful person, I needed this reminder to dedicate some time to lxqt-archiver to get familiar with its Qt code (the C code is too huge), find and fix its (probable) issues, and add features to it.

The goal: Make it an active component of the next release!

Expected Behavior

When extracting/compressing, especially from pcmanfm-qt, the current folder should be chosen; the user could change it later if he/she wants.

Current Behavior

lxqt-archiver shows the home folder.

Possible Solution

Will look into the code. It should be easy to implement; Arqiver does it.

@agaida
I think lxqt-archiver is quite stable and feature-rich now. But users may have not heard of it yet. So, a release could be good for users (they could get rid of alien apps like Ark) and developers alike (they'll receive more feedback).

Expected Behavior

lxqt-archiver should have read-only support for RPM archives.

Current Behavior

It can't open RPM packages.

System Information

Latest git version

I wanted to know whether someone could provide a deb x64 package. Or at least instructions on building it.

Thank you

It would be cool to backport these:

• mate-desktop/engrampa#288
• mate-desktop/engrampa#368
• mate-desktop/engrampa#358
• mate-desktop/engrampa#360

7-Zip on Windows allows users to open .img disk images as regular archive files, including FAT and NTFS partitions. This is convenient for users that work often with disk images and would allow LXQt users to easily open disk images without requiring additional software.

I think viewing/extracting disk images is already supported by 7z, so this could be easy to add to lxqt-archiver.

I am trying to build from source and cmake cant find fm-qt, is fm-qt pcmanfm-qt?

System Information

Distribution & Version: Ubuntu (Lubuntu) 19.04 (Disco Dingo)
Kernel: 5.0.0-31-generic
Qt Version: 0.14.1

Building lxqt-archiver also builds rpm2cpio.
On rpm based distros this binary will be already provided by the rpm package AFAIK.

I think in this case we shouldn't install our own build of it but rely on the system version. Probably just adding a flag to not install it will help.

Package maintainers on RPM based distros can then add a build requirement on rpm / /usr/bin/rpm2cpio.

It seems that I am unable to add a file to an archive by dragging & dropping a file into the lxqt-archiver window/folder, file-roller allows you to do this using PcManFm-Qt although since this is based on the Engrampa it may be missing.

When creating for example a tar.gz archive it's possible to set an passwd even if neither .tar nor .gz has this feature afaik. Probably true for others too.

Expected Behavior

Passwd field should be deactivated if archive format doesn't support it.

Possible Solution

Check for features when selecting suffix/format

System Information

git checkout of lxqt-archiver, arch

hi,

I tried on Mageia Cauldron (linux) to build lxqt-archiver 0.0.96 but it fails to build with recent glib2 2.61.2:

In file included from /home/pterjan/rpmbuild/BUILD/lxqt-archiver-0.0.96/src/core/fr-command-ace.c:31:
/home/pterjan/rpmbuild/BUILD/lxqt-archiver-0.0.96/src/core/glib-utils.h:69:21: error: conflicting types for 'g_ptr_array_copy'
GPtrArray * g_ptr_array_copy (GPtrArray *array);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:31,
from /home/pterjan/rpmbuild/BUILD/lxqt-archiver-0.0.96/src/core/fr-command-ace.c:27:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/garray.h:141:12: note: previous declaration of 'g_ptr_array_copy' was here
GPtrArray *g_ptr_array_copy (GPtrArray *array,
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[2]: *** [src/core/CMakeFiles/lxqt-archiver-core.dir/build.make:144: src/core/CMakeFiles/lxqt-archiver-core.dir/fr-command-ace.c.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/pterjan/rpmbuild/BUILD/lxqt-archiver-0.0.96/build'
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

build.0.20190812145901.log

Regards,
David

Expected Behavior

Current Behavior

Possible Solution

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. Drag files or folder from archive using lxqt-archiver
2. Try to drop them to file manager's window
3. No files from archive are extracted
   Implementing drag-and-drop will make decompressing much more easy.

Context

System Information

• Distribution & Version: Antergos x86_64
• Kernel: 4.20.13-arch1-1-ARCH
• Qt Version: 5.12
• libqtxdg Version: 3.3.1
• lxqt-build-tools Version: 0.6
• Package version: g941f586

Like win size and splitter position. Remembering can be optional and values can be saved on exiting or they can be set by the user.

we should tag a first alpha release

Would it be possible to add the ability to sort by column (like in file-roller) ?

When opening a protected archive the program doesn't ask for a password, instead a warning saying it's password protected.

I'm getting the following error:

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:33 (lxqt_translate_ts):
Unknown CMake command "lxqt_translate_ts".

Selecting from Menu → File → New Archiver dumps core when saving. No matter what kind of archive is selected.

System Information

• Distribution & Version: Arch Linux up to date, latest master LXQt

Expected Behavior

Sorting should be in the ascending order, with folders coming before files.

Current Behavior

It isn't so sometimes, like in this screenshot:

System Information

• Package version: Latest git

Expected Behavior

It can be very annoying to see extracted files being mixed with other files; there would be no easy way to find them. Unfortunately, most archive managers don't care.

Current Behavior

If the archive doesn't have a parent folder, make a directory inside the extraction folder and extract files inside it. If the user really wants to put them into the extraction folder, he/she could copy and paste them.

Possible Solution

I should look into the code. I've done it in Arqiver; so, I don't think it's hard to do here.

System Information

• Latest git

System Information

PCManFM-Qt version: 1.0.0
Distribution & Version: openSUSE Tumbleweed
Qt Version: 5.15
liblxqt Version: 1.0.0