I wrote about this 4 years ago. http://linuxtechie.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/file-roller-is-terribly- inefficient/ You hit the exact same points I did. I no longer use Gnome anymore but it's sad to see this stupidity still hasn't been fixed.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to file-roller in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146206 Title: files are copied to a local directory before being extracted Status in File Roller: New Status in “file-roller” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: file-roller gutsy, file-roller 2.20.0-0ubuntu1 this is big a problem, and I don't really understand why this has been done in this way before extracting files, file roller copies the archive in a local directory. If the space on the device is low, you cannot extract anything and this error is given to you: cp: write of `/home/yelo3/.fr-kw21if/lunar-1.6.2-beta1-i686.iso.bz2': No device space left file-roller should be able to extract the archive from the position it has! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/file-roller/+bug/146206/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
