Re: gdar - a graphical user interface to brows and extract dar archives

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Le 24/03/2014 00:06, Tobias Specht wrote:
> Am 23.03.2014 19:43, schrieb Denis Corbin:
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>> I can get gdar opening an archive, sliced or not sliced it works
>> fine whatever is the slice I give, great! But opening an
>> encrypted archive silently fails (no passord/crypto-algo
>> requested and no error reported)?
> At the moment encrypted archives are not supported, but this
> feature is already on my todo list. I will try to cache this case,
> or better implement this feature soon.
>> 
>> Once open, I can see only the first entry of each level of the 
>> directory tree. Well, note that my system is "gnome-free", as I
>> banned it out since gnome version 3 removed all the customization
>> I was used to have with gnome 2, features I guess anyone else is
>> willing to have under a modern graphical operating system (even
>> under windows 7, I got more possibilities to customize my
>> desktop!). Anyway, the problem I meet actually probably comes
>> from my side! :)
> I tested the GUI also with openSUSE 13.1 running as a KDE Desktop
> and the GUI is full functional, beside a small bug which turned out
> as a qt feature, but I have worked around this so it's is no
> problem any more. There should be no gnome dependency. You only
> need the GTK framework and gtkmm, which is a C ++ wrapper around
> GTK to provide an object-oriented programming interface. Which
> desktop environment are you using? XFCE, MATE, ...

I'm using back the maybe old but fully featured kde 4.8

> Can you run gdar from command-line. Are there any warnings or
> errors printed while runtime regarding GTK?

sure, there is just a complain about a missing icon:

(gdar:18180): glibmm-CRITICAL **:
unhandled exception (type Glib::Error) in signal handler:
domain: gtk-icon-theme-error-quark
code  : 0
what  : Icon 'folder-symbolic' not present in theme


> I would like to fix this problem, its likely that you are not the
> only one who feels not so familiar with Gnome 3.
>> 
>> On the right top of the window there is a switch sliding
>> left/right (0 <-> 1) but I could not figure out its feature.
>> Maybe this was also due to my gnome-unfriendly system! Sorry for
>> that.
> Yea, the switch is a little bit tricky. It's meant to display
> hidden files. It should be documented in the README in section
> manual. When you have an idea to make this feature more intuitive,
> let me know.

Maybe a label over the switch "show hidden file"?

>> 
>> I conclusion, for what I could see, I liked it :-) . Just can't
>> wait for more features, like archive creation, difference and
>> testing. To my point of view encryption, merging, hashing,... are
>> secondary features which support may not be present for a first
>> version of gdar.
>> 
>> Anyway that's a promising piece of software. If you need more 
>> advertising I suggest sending a note to dar-support
>> mailing-list: while it is a little off topic, the list has far
>> more readers than dar-discussion. Next, I can send an
>> informational mail to dar-news which is even more read. Of course
>> I will add a link from dar documentation once you will be ready.
> Thank you very much for your support. I'm proud to announce the new
> homepage about gdar: https://peckto.github.io/gdar/ It would be
> really nice if you could send a note about my project to dar-news.

Of course!

> Through the program is in beta state, it would be nice to have some
>  bug-reports :-). For the link on your documentation I think it
> would be the best to await the release 1.0.

No problem, tell me when you'll be ready.

> 
> Further more I plan to submit gdar to the package repositories of
> well known Linux distributions. The spec file for rpm packages is
> almost ready and waits for gdar v1.0 to be released. While the
> packages for Ubuntu and Debian take a little bit more time, since
> they have problems with the 64Bit release of libdar or provide an 
> too old version. I will query the responsible package maintainer
> for an update.
>> 
>>> Regards, Tobias
>>> 
>> Best Regards, Denis.
> Regards, Tobias
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