Comment 45 for bug 389176
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| appi2012 (appi2012) wrote Re: Have the file-roller automatically extract an archive on double click | #45 |
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Many people are suggesting to take the Windows explorer approach where the archives are opened like folders. In fact, this feature is in ubuntu right now. You can right click on an archive and select "Open with Archive Mounter" which mounts it like a disk drive. This is probably the best way for novices (as they can interact with the files just like a normal folder), so we should set that as default. However, advanced users could set the default action to be to open with the Archive Manager (file-roller).
Automatically unpacking an archive on doubleclick doesn't fit with how other things work in ubuntu, so such a change would be unexpected for users.