Re: [Usability]File roller report 1st draft

["Adam D. Lopresto" <adam cec wustl edu>]

Beautiful, except that it doesn't have any way to create a tarball.  But if you
put an appropriate option on the folder context menu....mmmmmm.

> I think the most important UI revision File Roller could have is not to
> have "any" user interface. When you double click on an archive file it
> should just pop up a progress bar and de-archive the thing. When its
> done, it should just quit. This is what you want with tarballs 90% of
> the time (at least). 
> 
> A smart feature would be to detect when the tarballs are $#(*&(*& evil
> and don't have all the files in a sub-dir, and display an appropriate
> warning (offering to create a new subdir named the same thing as the
> tarball, probably, and unzip into that).
> 
> -Seth
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