I would categorize it as a feature, but it might have certain surprising behavior bits about it, that breaks yours and others expectations.On 2016-11-12 18:00, Baptiste Saleil wrote:
Hi all.
File roller extract my archives in current directory by double click since 3.22
Is this a bug or a feature ?
If it's a feature, is there a bug report or discussion I can track to understand why devs choose to make this change ?
IMHO, this is one of the most stupid features which is again probably copied from the full-of-stupid-features MacOS.
I mean, if you really want to extract an archive in the current directory, there is the "Extract here" context menu entry, and it's literaly the same amount of clicks.
Probably a good candidate for some usability testing in the future.
Having extraction support in a file manager is also present in Midnight Commander, Windows Explorer (from XP and forward), ES File Explorer on Android and probably a bunch of others that I'm forgetting about right now.
As someone else pointed out in the thread, there is a checkbox to turn it off in Nautilus.
-- Below is some documentation about how it came to be --
GSOC project idea:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreach/SummerOfCode/2016/Ideas
GSOC project summary:
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2016/projects/ 5271934111580160/
Here are some blog posts on the subject:
https://razvanchitu.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/gsoc-2016-the-a dventure-begins/
https://razvanchitu.wordpress.com/2016/07/14/extraction-supp ort-in-nautilus/
https://razvanchitu.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/automatic-decom pression-of-archives/
https://razvanchitu.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/internal-compre ssion/
https://razvanchitu.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/an-awesome-expe rience/
And the bug report that implements the functionality:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768646
It was also in the news:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/07/native-nautilus-file-extr act-archive
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nautilus -Improved-Extraction
- Andreas
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