I was checking around, b/c I actually find using the command line much quicker and more effective than any compression programs GUI. So I looked to see if not only was their a good GUI, but one that supported the most formats. I found slim to nothing, and the ones integrated with like FileRoller w/ Konqueror, left much to be desired. So before I start, I just wanted to find out if anyone here has knowledge of a good GUI that provides a frontend for creating/extracting from multiple compressions.

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in *nix, you got three choices I know of for making a frontend. Gtk (Gimp Tool Kit), TK (a graphical extension of TCL) and QT (the KDE gui toolkit, I should look it up so I know what it means :p ). I know a bit of Gtk, I'm using it to give my IRC client a gui (writing client in perl, therefore using Gtk-perl). As for the others... *shrugs* TK is cross platform, but if you are using a *nix utility then this is a moot point.

So far my experience with Gtk is good. I found it remarkably easy to figure the basics out and get something working.

An example of what Gtk looks like.

Infinite

Or you can go the java route and get somethin that looks like this

found this today.

http://www.edenwaith.com/products/guitar/

http://freshmeat.net/browse/19/?topic_id=19

you are right, command line is better
if you need a GUI check freshmeat (the link), lots of tools there. mc still 0wns though, because you can make hotkeys for it. like F3 for uncompress and F4 for packed creation etc.