Comment 65 for bug 15495

A lot of the discussion here is that some archives do not offer compression, and therefore they should not be renamed to compressed files. This is a completely irrelevant technicality. You are thinking in the UNIX way, not in the simple user way. The simple user doesn't recognize the difference between compression and archiving, because he has no use for archiving. Why would anyone want to clump files together if it offers no savings in disk space?

Also consider that power users know that to "compress" means to reduce the size of data, but for an unsophisticated user it might as well refer to "compressing" the number of files!

"Bundling", "packing" or "packaging" are wrong. Bundling refers to something you get as a gratis with e.g. a video card or a magazine. Packaging is when you "wrap" or put the files in something. Zipping is only recognizable to WinZip users and shouldn't be used.

Another point: it is clear that "Compress..." won't destroy anything, because it has an ellipsis. This means that the user will be offered further choices. Moreover it is a given that if anything is about to destroy user data, a warning is displayed, so considering the possibility that users might be afraid to click on this is a distraction.

The correct solution is "Compressed File Manager" or "Compressed File Browser" and "Compress..."