Starting with file-roller-3.12.1 the name of the file-roller desktop file changed. The tap files of the archive plugin must have the same name as the archivers desktop file else the plugin wont find the archiver. A patch can be found on the upstream bug tracker.
Confirmed. Following command is a temporary workarround: ln -s /usr/libexec/thunar-archive-plugin/file-roller.tap /usr/libexec/thunar-archive-plugin/org.gnome.FileRoller.tap
Created attachment 386932 [details, diff] install-an-additional-symlink-for-file-roller.patch (In reply to Daniel Pielmeier from comment #0) > Starting with file-roller-3.12.1 the name of the file-roller desktop file > changed. The tap files of the archive plugin must have the same name as the > archivers desktop file else the plugin wont find the archiver. A patch can > be found on the upstream bug tracker. While the upstream patch is useful, it is troubling that: 1) The patch relies on the order in which packages are emerged since it checks the name of the .desktop file installed by app-arch/file-roller. Since thunar-archive-plugin uses the .desktop entry prefix for detection, a better patch would be always adding an additional tap symlink. 2) If this is reasonable, one might wonder why scripts/Makefile.am conditionally symlinks file-roller to gnome-file-roller. The ChangeLog shows it was added in response to Fedora renaming file-roller.desktop to gnome-file-roller.desktop. So the way in which scripts/Makefile.am addressed this conflicts with 1) above. I don't know if any system can have both gnome-file-roller.desktop and file-roller.desktop installed, so while I think the `test -f gnome-file-roller' line should be removed, without better knowledge of the effects (at least on Gentoo gnome users) I am that questionable line in tact in the patch. Attached is the different patch than upstream.
Missed a word above: "I am *leaving* that questionable line in tact in the patch."
You could use ark, there is an link neccesarry (like fileroller) ln -s /usr/libexec/thunar-archive-plugin/ark.tap /usr/libexec/thunar-archive-plugin/kde4-ark.tap To be able to create an archive, you need to change the ark.tap file # check the action case $action in create) exec ark --add "$@" -f tar.gz ;; ark doesnt ask the user for a filename, so an added "-f tar.gz" let it create by default tar.gz files.
this has been in thunar-archive-plugin-0.3.1-r1
