Xarchiver

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Xarchiver is software available for Linux based distributions and is the default (or bundled) archiving application of Xubuntu, Kate OS, 4Bak and LXDE. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Supported formats at this time (v. 0.5) are 7z, arj, bzip2, gzip, lzma, RAR, RPM, DEB, tar, and ZIP. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] Xarchiver uses the Direct Save Protocol XDS for drag and drop file saving. [10] The program acts as a front end for various commonly installed libraries dealing with the supported compression formats.[11] [12]

Xarchiver is designed to be independent of the desktop environment. It uses the GTK+2 toolkit [13] to provide the program interface; therefore it is capable of running on any system where GTK+2 support exists. A large number of other applications also use the toolkit, so support is widespread among other Linux distributions irrespective of their specific desktop solution. Recently, Xfce has adopted Xarchiver as the default archiver for their desktop environment. However, Xarchiver is not an official part of Xfce 4.4. [14]

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130110-page,2-c,linux/article.html PC World - New Linux Arrivals.
  2. ^ Torelli, Giuseppe. 2007. L'alternativa per i file compressi. Linux Magazine, Agosto 2007: 60-62.
  3. ^ http://linuxpedia.netsons.org/index.php/Xarchiver Reasonably detailed review of Xarchiver at LinuxPedia (in Italian)
  4. ^ http://lxde.sourceforge.net/about.html LXDE Component list
  5. ^ http://www.heise.de/software/download/xarchiver/48921 Review of Xarchiver at Software Verzeichnis (in German)
  6. ^ https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news/2006-December/000065.html Xarchiver review in Ubuntu Weekly News #25
  7. ^ http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Utilities/Compression/ A brief review at LiNUXLiNKS
  8. ^ http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/xarchiver Description of Xarchiver at Debian.org
  9. ^ http://freshmeat.net/projects/xarchiver/ Freshmeat.net description of Xarchiver
  10. ^ http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/xds/ Drag-and-Drop file saving.
  11. ^ http://linux.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Xarchiver-Screenshot-6122.html Series of Xarchiver screenshots
  12. ^ http://www.xfce.org/documentation/changelogs/4.3.90.2 Changelog for Xfce 4.4 with details of use of Xarchiver as integrated archive manager
  13. ^ http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/x11/xarchiver Xarchiver and GTK+2
  14. ^ http://xarchiver.xfce.org/news.html Xfce and Xarchiver.

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