- Xarchiver
Xarchiver is a front-end to various command line archiving tools for GNU/Linux and BSD
operating system s, designed to be independent of thedesktop environment . It is the default archiving application ofXubuntu ,KateOS , 4Bak andLXDE . [http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130110-page,2-c,linux/article.html PC World - New Linux Arrivals.] [Torelli, Giuseppe. 2007. "L'alternativa per i file compressi." Linux Magazine, Agosto 2007: 60-62.] [http://linuxpedia.netsons.org/index.php/Xarchiver Reasonably detailed review of Xarchiver at LinuxPedia (in Italian)] [http://lxde.sourceforge.net/about.html LXDE Component list]It uses the
GTK+ 2 toolkit [http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/x11/xarchiver Xarchiver and GTK+2] 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 otherLinux distribution s 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 ofXfce 4.4. [http://xarchiver.xfce.org/news.html Xfce and Xarchiver.]Supported formats at this time (v. 0.5) are
7z ,ARJ ,bzip2 ,gzip , lzma,RAR , RPM, DEB, tar, and ZIP. [http://www.heise.de/software/download/xarchiver/48921 Review of Xarchiver at Software Verzeichnis (in German)] [https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news/2006-December/000065.html Xarchiver review in Ubuntu Weekly News #25] [http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Utilities/Compression/ A brief review at LiNUXLiNKS] [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/xarchiver Description of Xarchiver at Debian.org] [http://freshmeat.net/projects/xarchiver/ Freshmeat.net description of Xarchiver] Xarchiver uses the Direct Save Protocol XDS for drag and drop file saving. [http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/xds/ Drag-and-Drop file saving. ] The program acts as afront end for various commonly installed libraries dealing with the supported compression formats. [http://linux.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Xarchiver-Screenshot-6122.html Series of Xarchiver screenshots] [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]References
External links
* [http://xarchiver.xfce.org/ Official Xarchiver website]
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