Shell integration of PeaZip?

[paul1149]

I've been quite happy with the onboard Archive Manager, but I started looking for one that has the option of a single-click interface, to save my wrists a little work.


I didn't find one (suggestions are welcome), but in the search I did come across PeaZip, which has a nicer interface and a lot more options than the default AM.


The only thing lacking, from my perspective, beside single-click action, is shell integration. Some ways to do this are given - copying a desktop shortcut to the sbin folder, or copying scripts to the usr/local/share folder, but these have not worked for me. The prog is portable, yet it uses a .deb installer package, which I don't understand.


Here's an excerpt from its FreeDesktop folder:

With following instructions you can easily integrate PeaZip with Gnome and KDE:


1) Install a PeaZip installable package (DEB, RPM, TGZ), or extract PeaZip portable to the desired path and link peazip binary in one of the system's binary folder i.e. /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, or /usr/local/bin (recommended)


2a) Gnome
- Nautilus scripts
Manually copy 'Archiving' folder, which is contained in 'nautilus-scripts', to your user's profile '.gnome2/nautilus-scripts' folder; that folder is hidden, so you can either find it flagging 'View>Show hidden files' in Nautilus, or clicking on 'Scripts>Open scripts folder' in Gnome's context menu.
This integration is NOT automatically performed by PeaZip installer, because nautilus-scripts path location is currently not widely standardized.
- .desktop files
Copy peazip.desktop files in /usr/share/applications
NOTE Gnome is often configured to use /usr/share/application and /usr/share/icons paths (i.e. on Ubuntu), but the paths may be different on some distribution or in some specific installations.
This integration is automatically performed by the installer.

Does anyone know a way to do this? Thanks.

[mandoran]

I use Peazip and as far as I can remember I just installed it from a .deb file - you just double click on the downloaded file using the default file manager - and once it is installed you can right click on a zip or other archive file and choose properties, the ability to assign the file type to PeaZip should be on the General tab.


Hope this helps...

[paul1149]

Thanks mandoran. Yes, default file associations are no problem. PeaZip actually took them over automatically upon "installation", which while I have no problem with in this case, is not right for a "portable" file.

What I'm looking to do here is have PeaZip actions in the context menu.