Comment 57 for bug 15495

Interesting Paper Cut

I just thought I would add something in regards to the "windows" world that is mentioned throughout

I think its slightly incorrect to think of the "Send To --> Compressed (zipped) folder" dialog as universally used under windows. Ever since zip files were handled by XP released in 2002-2003, I still run across people who still think they need to install Winzip\Winrar or whatever app to create\open zip files.

It is not very well advertised in the OS and people are most still using windows as if its windows 98 and nothing has changed. eg still need Winzip (shareware woot!) installed.. still need Nero installed to create a simple data CD

So using this as the "standard" for how things should be implemented is not entirely correct. I do think the windows way is more seamless than a separate application though and ill usually just install 7zip on windows (for myself and other users) to handle other archive formats (and more advanced zip file creation) but leave windows as the associated app for zip and cab files.

Still how it is implemented at the moment in Ubuntu is great. I do think there should be less abstraction involved with dealing with archive files (eg make them look like a folder with all the same operations as mentioned above) BUT they still need to be recognized as files to the user and it needs to be obvious that they are archive files so the user can make decisions based on that

on the topic at hand.. I think "Compress file\s..." is only slightly better than "Create Archive". Most people would think that one "zip file" will be created when clicking this... I doubt a majority of people will think if they click this they will create many compressed files or something silly like that