Comment 27 for bug 389176

@danielmewes: No offense taken, rest assured. You are correct, the expression "working with archives" would be better rephrased as "extracting archive contents"

The use case would be the following:
a) I download, receive via email or IM an archive and save it to a location (desktop, Downloads folder, etc)
b) I navigate via Nautilus to it (if needed)
c) double click it/hit enter if I'm relying on the keyboard
d) archive extracts to a new folder with the same name as the original file, bar the extension in the current folder
e) I enter the new folder and do whatever I have to do with the archive contents

I think I judged too quick the new window issue. If I don't save the file somewhere on the disk and double click it in Thunderbird, for example, the file would extract to the system temporary folder, and I would have no way to get to it but to figure out what that folder is. So perhaps, yes, a new window would be needed.

I see a problem with my take on this issue pertaining to opening files when asked by Firefox and/or Thunderbird. I don't find working within the browser's temporary folder very user friendly (or recommended for that matter). I would appreciate some input on this from anyone who is willing to support this issue.