[Proposal] GUI for Ratarmount

[iuvi7]

Hi!

Is it possible to ask, if there will be (or if there already is) a GUI interface for Ratarmount?

It could give more whitespread and easy to use for "daily" PC users for such cool tool

Thank you

[mxmlnkn]

Hi there,

That is definitely an idea I have thought of several times over the years. There is not yet such a GUI. Personally, I do have experience programming in Qt, but it is quite a beast when it comes to distributing Qt programs, although it should work with AppImage in theory.

Issues I see are:

• What should the GUI even be like? Something like 7zFM or PeaZip, which basically are like file browsers?
• But, because of FUSE, the GUI is already provided by any explorer the user already has installed, such as Caja. Isn't that enough?
• This would leave the command line interface, which has gotten quite many options over the years. It might be nice to have a GUI to make these options more discoverable, maybe even show a kind of preview to visualize e.g. the --recursion-depth and other options.
• Having a GUI for the command line interface but then using normal FUSE and the standard file browser might also be confusing. So, maybe do offer an option to use the built-in file browser and/or FUSE mount a given archive...

Personally, I would recommend simply adding ratarmount to your file browser context menu, e.g., for Caja like so:

mkdir -p ~/.config/caja/scripts/
ln -s "$( which ratarmount )" ~/.config/caja/scripts/ratarmount

[iuvi7]

Thanks for your answer!

I found such program with GUI but for MacOS only :( so i thought it can look's bit similar and more functionality added little by little to it (means more buttons\check marks\settings described in Examples) -> https://github.com/ivoronin/ArchiveMounter

AppImage and\or .deb will be overwhelm to cover many different Linux distros

Sadly i'm bad in programming myself, but could help in translation to other language tho