[nemo-fileroller] Support engrampa as fallback if file-roller cannot be found

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3/5
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1-2 days
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Issue type
Feature
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Mostly clear
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c
Domain
desktop

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Start by locating the nemo-fileroller implementation and its hard-coded file-roller binary lookup. Confirm how the extension behaves when file-roller is absent, then define completion as using engrampa as the fallback while preserving existing file-roller behavior; add or update coverage if this component has tests.

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Description

Currently nemo-fileroller simply does not work if file-roller is not installed. While that is (generally) fine, it would be nice if it could support using engrampa as a fallback. Since engrampa is a file-roller fork (by the MATE project), it has a 100% compatible command-line API and mimics file-roller in everything but the binary name (which in turn is hard-coded into nemo-fileroller). If you agree that it would be OK for nemo-fileroller to fallback to engrampa I could provide a patch for that.

In case you don't agree: Would you consider hosting a nemo-fileroller fork in nemo-extensions (i.e.: nemo-engrampa) that provides support for extracting archives with engrampa?

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