Archive Behavior Research

  1. Bug #389176
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 389176

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Vish (vish) wrote : Re: Have the file-roller automatically extract an archive on double click

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@DarthTibault:
I'm not sure where you are basing you right-click theory on!

@ David Seigel:
This Bug , is a bad implementation... since if i want to edit an archive... this makes it harder. the present behavior is what users are used to in ALL OS...

1] This is a problem for editing archives , i would have to recreate archives , which would be would not be necessary if the archive doesnt extract on double click.

2] And .deb archive types are installers ,

3] some tar.gz files are themes and some are simple archives, how do you decide which is which? you have to make sure that these[.deb / .tar.gz] archives dont extract! So i think it might not be a simple papercut.

4] Several viruses from the windows world are packed in .rar/.zip files . So accidental extracting them without knowing the contents "can" affect the wine files , and might spread in email attachments, so this is kinda HUGE security problem.
Archives as a rule contain files which are hidden to the user, which WE CANNOT access before viewing the archive.

More than NOT being a usability issue, I would say NOT extracting the files is a security feature.