[Kde-announce-apps] PeaZip 1.4

[Giorgio Tani]

Name: PeaZip
Version: 1.4
Type: Archiving/Backup
Depend: 
License: LGPL
Homepage: http://peazip.sourceforge.net/
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=52805

Description:
 PeaZip is an OS-portable file archiver, released
under LGPL for Windows and Linux (Linux version
requires libgdk_pixbuf library).
It supports it's native PEA archive format
(featuring compression, splitting and flexible
authenticated encryption and integrity check
schemes) and other mainstream formats, with
especial focus on handling open formats:
Full support: 7Z, 7Z-sfx, BZip2, GZip/TGZ, PAQ8F,
PAQ8JD, PEA, QUAD, split (.001), TAR, ZIP
Browse/extract support: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB,
ISO, Java archives (JAR, EAR, WAR), LHA, LZH, NSIS
installers, Open Office file types, RAR, RPM, Z

NOTE: download links bring you to SourceForge's
download page, containing most up to date
available download packages.

USER INTERFACE:
PeaZip's UI aims giving aid to the user to:
edit, save and restore layout of archives;
save job definition, to be used in scripts or for
learning purpose;
have a detailed job log after each operation.
Browsing and selective partial extraction and
listing of 7z-supported archives is implemented
with a navigational browser (featuring also an
optional flat mode) and an advanced filtering
mechanism allowing multiple inclusion and
exclusion filters.
PeaZip's most used functions are also available,
in Windows installable version, from "SendTo"
menu, allowing to: send files to .7z, .pea and
.zip archives, encrypt multiple files and folders
(.pea encrypted archive, with optional two factor
authentication), split files, extract, list or
test multiple archives (even of different types)
at once.

Changelog:
 - 1.4
FreeDesktop_integration folder, featured in all
Linux versions, contains .desktop files and simple
instructions to integrate PeaZip with FreeDesktop
compliant desktop environments, like KDE and
Gnome.
Added support to QUAD compressor, Strip/UPX
compression for binaries, introduced optional
pre-archiving in TAR format, various UI
improvements.

- PeaZip KDE integration package 0.1
This package contains .desktop files and
instructions to apply it to a generic Linux system
with KDE to provide Start Menu and Konqueror
Service Menu integration to PeaZip.

- 1.3
This update introduces various mixed improvements
over the previous version; most notably it's now
posible to add/update or delete objects into
archive types supported through 7z binary.
PAQ8F and PAQ8JD support is added: it's now
possible to create, browse (flat view) and extract
PAQ archives, bringing the benefit of the awesome
PAQ's compression ratio in the easy to use PeaZip
graphic frontend.