Comment 36 for bug 389176
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| Loïc Martin (loic-martin3) wrote Re: Have the file-roller automatically extract an archive on double click | #36 |
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@roffik:
>If you mean opening an archive like a folder in Nautilus, but without
> extracting it, I'll vote for it.
That behavior has been implemented in some file managers for about as long as there are file managers. Nautilus doesn't do that by default, it shouldn't be difficult to add it, but that could be a conscious decision from the Gnome team (less confusing? in which case extracting the contents of the archive and deleting the archive would be even more confusing...).
You can already work without extracting the archive first with the default behavior - double click on an archive, it opens a window showing the contents of the archive, and you can work inside the archive as you'd do inside a folder already. The behavior could be improved (some file managers do that better than the default Gnome), but adding the overhead and problems that comes when defaulting to extracting the archive contents _before_ you can access them seems like trying to fix the wrong quirks.