Comment 44 for bug 389176
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| Jason Whitlark (jwhitlark) wrote Re: Have the file-roller automatically extract an archive on double click | #44 |
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I *frequently* download archives, inspect their contents, and either extract only a few files or delete the entire thing. Automatically extracting them is the wrong choice. If you feel file-roller needs work to be more usable, then let's improve that interface, not change the paradigm for how the desktop works. I can't think of any program that works on the idea of "you double clicked a file, so we'll get rid of the original, replace it with something similar, but not the same, and then open that".
If you really want this behavior, you can change you file association for archives from "file-roller" to "file-roller --extract-here", but don't break it for others.
I feel that due to the contention on this change, it should not be included in paper-cuts. Paper-cuts should be about bugs/issues that everyone can agree on, not feature requests.