Introduction

• Version 0.6.2 is out including .bz2, .gz and .Z support. Came on, go to the download section an grab it.
• Version 0.6.1 is out. Small bug fixes from everybody.

• Version 0.1.0:
  • Created tree view for folders (see screenshots).
  • SIZE column know sorts by number.
• Version 0.2.0:
  • Allow openning more than one file (using "tabulars").
  • Added .tar, and .zip support.
• Version 0.3.0:
  • Show close button on "tabulars" (similar to Galeon).
  • Added Status Bar and progress bar (and make them do something).
  • Created new extract dialog (with directory browsing and some other features).
• Version 0.4.0:
  • Included international text using gettext.
  • Included command line options (to automatically open extract dialog).
  • Open more than one file from command line (with maximum).
• Version 0.5.0:
  • Update progress bar extracting and opening archives (doesn't work :-?.
  • Extract Selected files implemented.
  • Use MIME to show icon (with libgnomevfs).
  • Create pop-up menus to extract and to "Open With".
  • Create Prefs dialog.
• Version 0.6.0:
  • Use "configure" to compile the project.
  • Include maximum number of file to open in preferences dialog.
  • Create debian package.
• Version 0.6.1:
  • Call 'g_locale_to_utf8()' after 'gettext()' to prevent GTK+-2.0 warnings on accentuated letters. Please someone let me know if that is right!
• Version 0.6.2:
  • Add .bz2, .gz and .Z support.
  • Save preferences in "~/.lintarrc (it'll be better to use gconf-2.0 for this).
• Version 0.7.0:
  • Sort name column (folders first).
  • Create rpm package (need some help here).
  • New extract dialog with better directory selection support.
• Version 1.0.0:
  • Allow posibility to append files to existing archives.
  • Include Drag & drop support.
  • Gnome 2.0 compliant.
  • Arj, Ace & Rar support. (the more the better :-)

• I cannot make Threads and GTK+ to work, if I include calls to 'g_thread_init()' as the GTK+ help files say you should do, then the main window doesn't show up (not even after gtk_widget_show_all(window)'). If I don't use these calls gtk widgets don't get updated when multiple threads are runnning.
• Using gnomevfs-2.0 outputs loads of warning messages when exiting.
• Electric fence shows an error when destroying a treeview. Maybe I should not destroy strings after creating the treeview... :-?
• The option recursive subdirectories when extracting is not very intuitive. I'm trying to change that so clicking on the tree automatically selects child nodes. The problem is that the recursive function to select children nodes doesn't work as expected. :-(
• Trying to get the corresponding icon for a mime type doesn't really work. I'm using the following piece of code calling some gnomevfs-2.0 funcions.

        mime = (const gchar *)gnome_vfs_mime_type_from_name( (const char*)fullname);
        if (mime!=NULL) {
           icon = (const gchar *)gnome_vfs_mime_get_icon(mime);
           if (icon!=NULL) {
              path = gnome_vfs_icon_path_from_filename(icon);
           }
        }

  It doesn't work as icon is usually without extension or anything... :-?
• Selecting the extract folder by using a standard select file dialog is not a very good idea as the user can also select files from it. I don't know how to make a file selection dialog to only show directories though :-(
• I cannot make 'gettext' to work properly. I've created a .po file. After compiling, installing and setting the LANG variable, I get the following error when using translated strings with 'ñ' or accentuated letters such as 'á' or 'ó':

           lintar (pid:443): Gtk-WARNING **: Invalid input string
           lintar (pid:443): ** WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()

  Do I need to use 'g_locale_to_utf8()' after calling gettext ???? :-?
• It'll be better to use gconf-2.0 or gnome to save preferences,

• The first one shows the main application window showing the list view:
  
• Main application showing in this case the tree view:
  
• The extract dialog:
  
• The preferences dialog:
  
  

• Version 0.6.2: Download.

Last Modified: Mon, 05th Mar, 2001. Send any comments to jrh@gps.tsc.upc.es.