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1. Manish Sinha Ubuntu users

   Does archive Manager in !Ubuntu makes archive handling complicated? http://is.gd/6qMdI Need feedback

   Sunday, 17-Jan-10 08:07:40 UTC from web at Kasturba Road, State of Karnātaka, India
   • Brewster Malevich

     @manish I personally don't have a problem with it. I'd be open to seeing the archive integrate with nautilus though. Might be nice. :-)

     Sunday, 17-Jan-10 08:15:07 UTC
   • Manish Sinha Brewster Malevich

     @brews Yes. That would be nice, but it makes us dependent on nautilus devs. We have to wait for them to implement it

     Sunday, 17-Jan-10 08:22:49 UTC
   • Brewster Malevich

     @manish So, then what are the reasonable options? Just have it uncompress on double-click ala OSX?

     Sunday, 17-Jan-10 08:30:06 UTC
   • Brewster Malevich

     Early morning tmrw, so I'm off to bed.

     Sunday, 17-Jan-10 08:32:05 UTC
   • Manish Sinha Brewster Malevich

     @brews Ya. That is the thing most people do including heavy users. They just want to extract it since Nautilus doesn't handle archives

     Sunday, 17-Jan-10 09:24:47 UTC
   • bigbrovar

     @manish tar?

     Sunday, 17-Jan-10 09:27:49 UTC
   • Manish Sinha bigbrovar

     @bigbrovar I don't think it makes you feel like you are working inside nautilus. Anyway can you make it more clear?

     Sunday, 17-Jan-10 09:30:49 UTC
   • bigbrovar

     @manish naa am just saying you dont have to be a programmer for source codes to b relevant to you in relation to foss.

     Sunday, 17-Jan-10 10:27:54 UTC
   • bigbrovar

     @manish eg I dont have to be a programmer to download the src of ubuntu linux linux & enable PEA or disable modules i dont need for my hw

     Sunday, 17-Jan-10 10:29:26 UTC
   • bigbrovar

     @jargon a source code needs to be packaged to binary. I have given you examples of you a non coder can use config flags to his benefit

     Sunday, 17-Jan-10 10:51:40 UTC
   • bigbrovar

     @jargon must packagers are not even coders. yet there package source codes for particular architure.

     Sunday, 17-Jan-10 10:54:09 UTC
   • bigbrovar

     @jargon I have quite a many examples of many source I have downloaded and enabled certain features i needed just by following docs

     Sunday, 17-Jan-10 10:55:13 UTC
   • bigbrovar

     @jargon at least I remember nautilus, pidgin, compiz and even the linux kernel. also u seem to think coders package, no they dont

     Sunday, 17-Jan-10 10:56:30 UTC
   • bigbrovar

     @jargon who is talking about average users. I am saying source code is not only relevant to coders.

     Sunday, 17-Jan-10 11:46:21 UTC
   • bigbrovar

     @jargon @reidrac foss is beyond source code, its about open dev process, which allows participation. mailinglist, irc,bugtrackers,brainstom

     Sunday, 17-Jan-10 11:49:20 UTC
   • bigbrovar

     @jargon I was replying to this http://is.gd/6ro6e

     Sunday, 17-Jan-10 11:57:47 UTC
   • bigbrovar

     @reidrac let the strength of FOSS is not just source-code its community. FOSS is nothing without the community

     Sunday, 17-Jan-10 12:00:56 UTC
   • Brewster Malevich

     @manish IMHO double-click extracts would work well.

     Sunday, 17-Jan-10 15:44:31 UTC
   • Manish Sinha bigbrovar

     @bigbrovar Archives are meant not only for source code. Even non-techy people use archives. Techy people don't come in picture now

     Sunday, 17-Jan-10 18:22:45 UTC