Comment 58 for bug 389176

David,

According to the guidelines, "if you are reading this wiki, or reporting a paper cut on Launchpad, chances are that you are not the average user". This /does not/ mean that our insights are invalid, or that we are incapable of putting ourselves in the shoes of average users.

* Changing the default action of opening an archive /will/ confuse your mother and grandmother, if they have ever used, or ever will use, another operating system on the planet. *

Is it fair for Ubuntu to change an industry standard like this so easily?

By all means let's test this, but are you going to listen to feedback from users (average or not), or have you already made the decision? By what criteria will you accept or reject this proposal? The comments are already negative in a healthy majority. Even though the people who have commented aren't "average users", who else can represent the average user on a Launchpad bug report?

P.S. Anticipating user testing, the first usability bug:

Since most archives are downloaded from the internet, and Firefox's download window cannot perform Nautilus contextual actions, you'll be forcing this action of extracting files upon all users.

If a user wants to /open/ a downloaded archive, they need to:
-right-click on the download entry in Firefox;
-click on "Open containing folder"
-manually navigate to the file (as Nautilus doesn't highlight the file similar to the behaviour in Windows);
-right-click on the archive once more;
-click on "Open with Archive Manager".

That's four mouse clicks /plus/ whatever clicks were necessary to locate and navigate to the file in Nautilus. Just to /open/ the archive.