Comment 13 for bug 389176
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| Pablo Quirós (polmac1985) wrote Re: Have the file-roller automatically extract an archive on double click | #13 |
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A basic rule of usability is not doing something the user doesn't expect. If you do what you are considering, some users will be pleased, but lots of users will be disappointed for an unexpected (and maybe unwanted) behavior.
If you want to make it quicker to extract files... I don't know, a possible solution would be to open a dialog asking the user whether he wants to open it or to extract it. This way, it'd be quicker to extract it.
But anyway, I find it a bit meaningless as it's really easy for anyone to do right click -> extract here. That's what contextual menus are for :)