Bug#352875: file-roller: Tries to guess format from file name

[Roland Mas]

Sven Arvidsson, 2007-01-20 22:49:13 +0100 :

> The last part, foo.tar-1 seems to work fine now. This file is
> identified and opened by file-roller as a tar archive.

Only when opened directly, but yes.

> As for .tar-1.bz2 I'm not sure what can be done. Magic numbers can
> be hard to do anything with as the file is identified as a bz2
> compressed file either way.

  True, true.  But maybe file-roller could check the magic numbers for
the file that's embedded in the bz2 stream?  It's not going to degrade
performance too much, since there's only one.

> Can I mark this bug as done, or do you want to keep it open. (If it
> remains open, I will forward it upstream.)

  I guess this requires an upstream change, but even if I can
double-click on foo.tar-1 inside file-roller and select "Open with
file-roller" and get another f-r to open it, it would be much more
convenient if the first one opened it directly.  In other words:
please forward, yes :-)

Roland.
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Roland Mas

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