Comment 2 for bug 389176
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| Alin Claudiu Radut (clawoo) wrote Re: Have the file-roller automatically extract an archive on double click | #2 |
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That is exactly why extracting the files would create a new directory with the archive name, to avoid the mixing of files. Extracting an archive by double clicking it will always result in a new directory being created, regardless of the archive contents.
I am pushing this request forward because probably 95% of the times if not more I extract the archive. Opening it to view its contents is irrelevant to me as a user because I am interested in accessing the files stored in the archive I've just downloaded.
I believe this is more user friendly than displaying the file-roller interface. Non-technical users don't really understand the concept of archiving, all they know is that they want to double click something to get to their received/downloaded files. The proposed behavior would simplify this task.