Re: [Usability]File roller report 1st draft

[Mike Hearn <mike theoretic com>]

Yeah. If that was ever implemented though, we'd have to make sure it was
easy to open files that didn't have standard extensions. I know from
when I was a KDE user (which has tarball browsing in konq and ark for
fileroller) that sometimes I used kio_tar and sometimes (especially when
working with java projects) I needed to use ark, because ark could read
a truckload of formats easily, and even doing stuff like having a zip
ending in .jar or .war would be enough to disable the kio_tar plugin.

I do like the idea, but experience of this from KDE and Windows with
ZipFolders and in XP Compressed Folders tells me that for some reason I
often ended up using WinZip/ark anyway.

thanks -mike

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 00:06, Seth Nickell wrote:
> I think its basically the right idea. This is particularly good if we
> ever get the much-vaunted-but-never-implemented "browse tarballs with
> Nautilus" feature. Then you just create a tarball, which behaves like a
> folder, and copy stuff into it. That way we don't even really need the
> options in the "MIME actions" context menu, just a way to create
> tarballs (perhaps in the same place as folders: "Create Archive").
> 
> -Seth
> 
> On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 09:50, Aschwin van der Woude wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > <crazy thought-bubble>
> > 
> > What about having two items for this in the context menu :
> > 
> >   - Create tarball
> >   - Add to tarball
> > 
> > The create option will ask for a location + filename, afterwards a package icon 
> > in the system-tray indicating we are creating a package.
> > All subsequent invocations of 'Add to tarball' would have the file(s) added to this tarball, or 
> > perhaps files could be dragged to the icon.
> > 
> > Perhaps the tarball is 'open' until the user clicks on the icon in the system-tray, or if a 
> > time-out occurs.
> > 
> > The problem is off course that the sudden appearance of the icon in the system-tray isn't necessarily
> > linked to the 'Create tarball' function. Maybe some sort of animation or perhaps just a simple explanation
> > would make this more clear.
> > 
> > <crazy thought-bubble>
> > 
> > The above might sound totally silly, but the idea popped into my grey mass and would have been gone
> > if I would not have shared it.
> > 
> > How silly do you people think this is,
> > 
> > -A.
> 
>