Comment 70 for bug 389176

After reading the informal user test this are my suggestions:

1) Double clicking could open the "Extracting files from X" dialog with the progress bar. The underlaying tech needs fixes so what we get a smooth and relevant progress bar, not like the one that is implemented now that jumps to 50% and then jumps in increments to completion.
Upon completion of the extraction we should open the Nautilus window with the extracted content. To stop people from trying to extract the archive multiple times the dialog should get the focus and the archive should lose it.

2) The "fancy" way:
On double click open a Nautilus window and use the "strip" (the one that apears in the Trash/UbuntuOne folder) to display the information as such:

Extracting X | Progress [#######_______]

The user can see the root folder (of the extracting archive) populate with content from the archive (since I'm guessing that it's being read sequentially). That way the user can see that there is something happening and can interact with the files that have been extracted while being informed that there are still things being extracted.

Problem cases are archive's with one file. How do we display that in #2 suggestion? Perhaps dim the icon and select and focus on it once it's done extracting?
The other problem are huge archive's that can bring any machine to it's knees. I'm guessing that for most users it's not a problem since the archive are usually small. Perhaps open Archive Manager if the archive is over 500-1000MB's and has multiple files? But that breaks both of my suggestions since the user is expecting to see either #1 or #2.

Suggestions?