Comment 43 for bug 389176
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| Conn O Griofa (psyke83) wrote Re: Have the file-roller automatically extract an archive on double click | #43 |
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I'd also like to offer my 2 cents.
Automatically extracting the contents of archives when double-clicking on an archive seems like a really, really bad idea, and completely ignores the purpose of file-roller as an archive management tool.
This change is *not* going to improve the user experience, it's only going to annoy a lot of people. Even Windows has the foresight not to extract archives automatically (archives are opened within the interface of Windows Explorer as though they are regular folder, but if you click on an executable within an archive, it displays a prompt suggesting that the entire archive may need to be extracted for the executable to work correctly).
An archive is not a folder, and if we wish to re-invent the concept of an archives, then we should implement some kind of FUSE layer in which an archive can be "mounted" into a special folder and modified like a folder on a normal filesystem.