The functionality is now built directly into Nautilus

Sep 15, 2016 01:30 GMT  ·  By

Big changes are coming to the soon-to-be-released GNOME 3.22 desktop environment, and you'll see them all (well, at least most of them) next week when it will be officially announced, on Wednesday, September 21, 2016.

We've already told you about the last minute Wayland improvements implemented in the Mutter window and compositing manager for the GNOME 3.22 desktop, and in this article, we would like to tell you about the new features coming to the File Roller archive manager.

When you install a new GNOME instance on your GNU/Linux operating system, and you notice that you can't open or extract archives, what's the first thing you do? You install the File Roller package, of course. Well, guess what? In GNOME 3.22, the Nautilus extension for File Roller has been removed, as it's now built into the file manager.

What this means is that File Roller no longer depends on Nautilus, but it will be interesting to see if the above-mentioned scenario is going to disappear as well, because having an archive manager installed by default on a new GNOME desktop environment is vital for the entire user experience.

File Roller 3.22 now ready for public beta testing

A second Beta build of the File Roller 3.22 archive manager for the GNOME 3.22 desktop environment has been released this week, and it looks like beside the removal of the Nautilus extension, multiple memory leaks have been resolved, and lots of language translations updated.

It is also possible now to rename files in a password-protected archive, again. Below, we've attached the full changelog in case you want to study it and, in the meantime, you can download File Roller 3.22 Beta 2 right now via our website and take it for a test drive, but remember that this is a pre-release version.

File Roller 3.21.91 Changelog