Comment 72 for bug 389176
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| Sean Olson (olson-sean-k) wrote Re: Have the file-roller automatically extract an archive on double click | #72 |
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I have to disagree with auto-magically extracting archive contents like this.
As has been pointed out several times, there's already a context menu item for this that works very well (including creating a folder to contain the archive contents if necessary). It's already very quick and easy to use and follows a common pattern of opening the context menu to perform file-specific actions.
I would very much dislike archives being extracted when I double-click them. Displaying a dialog seems better, but that would get awfully annoying. Now if I want to simply see what's in an archive, I have to use the context menu? I find this very counterintuitive and inconsistent. As it is now, double-clicking the archive displays its contents, just like double-clicking a folder displays that folder's contents.
I have wondered if it's possible to integrate File Roller with Nautilus so that archives can optionally be displayed within Nautilus. I like File Roller, but the only part of the dealing with archives that feels a bit off is that I can't simply browse the contents of an archive with Nautilus.
I'm not familiar with ZipMagic, but it would be interesting if some faux file system could be created to allow archives to be used without actually having to extract the contents.