Xarchiver - Changelog

Changelog

Version 0.4.6

Fixed code in support.c to load the images when installing the software.
Renamed png icons to make them freedesktop compliant.

Version 0.4.4

G R E A T L Y improved speed and memory usage.
Added documentation. It will be showed in the system browser (currently supported are firefox, opera and mozilla).
Added Firefox like tabs.
Added comment support for ARJ and ZIP. The rar one is more difficult since it's compressed in the archive itself.
The files and directories to add can be dropped into the add dialog window.
Extracting files in encrypted archives with DnD no more fails since the password it's now asked.
Better behaviour of the GUI while archive operations are in progress.
Fixed unsuccessful open of rpm archives when the cpio archive was compressed with bzip2.c.
Changed View Window title as the filename of the ASCII file whose content the user wants to see.
Added ability to convert archives to self-extracting.
The archive properties dialog and the ISO info window can be closed by hitting ESC.
Fixed bug preventing to add files by drag and drop when no archive has been created.
Fixed Xarchiver rar problem when only unrar is available.
Fixed creation of directory with "\ " when extracting an iso whose filename has spaces.
Added LHA archive and DEB format (without dpkg executable) thanks to �^�ukasz.
Fixed code to compile under Solaris.
Changed some strings for a better usability.
A lot of other small bug fixes; thanks to baze for notifying most of them.
Fixed bugs #2434, #2321, #22477, #1736, #2455, #2451, #2552 and others I forgot.

Version 0.4

Added symbolic link column in tar/tar.bz2/tar.gz and RPM archives.
Ability to extract files inside RPM archives without the directory they are contained in.
View ability works now with files inside RPM archives nested in more than one directory.
Increased speed ! Xarchiver is faster than ever when opening archives.
The GUI looks neat and clean respect to the 0.3.3 release.
Added a brand extract and add dialog supporting most of the archiver command line options.
Added drag and drop from and to Xarchiver window by using the XDS protocol.
Added the (in)famous cmd-line switches; see xarchiver -? for details.
Added a Stop button who cancels the current operation or you can use the ESC key.
Added ability to test archives.
Added an archive properties window showing useful info about the archive and its content.
Added two menu entries in the Action menu to select or unselect the files in the treeview.
Added support for ISO images (opening, extract and view only) but it's incomplete, see the TODO file.
"Row selection while you type" ability. Useful when you have thousand of files inside the archive.
The extract dialog now "remembers" the last used extraction path.
The extract dialog automatically sets the destination directory as the archive path.
The enter key can be also used with the extract dialog.
You can use accelerators (keyboard shortcuts) for almost the menu entries.
The Del key can also be used instead of the Delete button on the toolbar.
Removed the confirmation dialog when opening bzip2 and gzip compressed files.
Added a confirmation dialog when deleting files from the archive.
Finally fixed bug randomly causing rar and arj output badly appears.
Finally fixed bug randomly causing tar.bz2 and tar.gz archives to be corrupted when deleting files from them.
Fixed some memory leaks but surely someone is left :)
Fixed bug causing filenames with spaces inside the archive not being viewed.
Fixed bug causing filenames with spaces in arj archives appear truncated in Xarchiver window.
Fixed a bug preventing the file dialog to select more than one file when adding to arj archives.
Fixed progress bar not appearing when adding only one big file to an archive.
Fixed a bug causing Xarchiver to hang when opening empty zip archives.
Fixed a bug causing Xarchiver to exit when opening a not supported archive directly from the command line.

Version 0.3.3

Fixed a bug preventing .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 archives to be opened.

Version 0.3.2

Fixed weird bug causing .tar.gz / .tar.bz2 archives to be corrupted when deleting files from them.
Fixed arj and rar output badly appear in the window when opening large archives.

Version 0.3.1

Some code cleanup.
Fixed bug in detecting arj password protected archives.
Fixed a memory leak with the string who contains the extract_path.
Fixed detection of bzip2 causing Xarchiver to recognize only 900k block size compressed files.
Fixed a regression causing bzip2 and gunzip to remain as zombie processes.
Fixed bug causing Xarchiver to emit a seg fault when the X button is pressed while it is working.
Fixed a regression causing Xarchiver not supporting creation of tar.bz2 and tar.gz archives.

Version 0.3

7z and arj (also password protected) formats are supported if you have 7za and arj installed. 7z password protected archives are not automatically detected. If you are able to decompress the main header of a 7z archive please let me know about it.
Added a view ability for text files inside the archive. No external editor needed !!
The size columns are treated as uint instead as string so that sorting by size is possible now.
The bottom window is now used for reporting messages to the user.
Added a progress bar that shows the archive's operation progress.
Greatly improved the zip password detection; if an archive contains 10 files and only the last one is password protected Xarchiver will detect it (the same is true for arj).
When you open or create a password protected archive a small padlock is shown in the window bottom right.
Fixed an occasional crash when opening zip archives.
Fixed a bug causing filenames of rpm archive not displayed correctly.
Fixed a bug causing cpio temp file not to be deleted when an error occurs.
Added russian and german translation (thanks to Eugene Ostapets and Enrico Troeger).
Better gettext support.

Version 0.2.1

Fixed a series of bug introduced with the support of the RPM format. The extract ability now works again.
Fixed a bug preventing extraction of more than one file inside an RPM archive.
After opening rar or zip password protected archives the extraction of other archive types was not possible. Fixed.

Version 0.2

Added ability to open and extract RPM archives without rpm or rpm2cpio executables.
Xarchiver can extract and create password protected zip and rar archives.
Fixed some memory leaks when extracting archives.
Fixed a bug when detecting the type of archive.
Added gettext support.
Added a .desktop file.