Re: [Usability] Re: Compress Files feature directly from Properties options



On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 02:45 +0100, Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:21:09 -0700, Karim Nassar wrote:
> 
> > It doesn't offer a path for me to select (defaults to the current dir),
> > nor does it offer me other formats that file roller supports.
> 
> Simply enter a name with .tar.bz2 or .zip extension and it'll do what you
> want.  This is one of the things that _do_ work in File Roller :-)

While this is a valuable tip for me personally, it seems terribly
undiscoverable. If we value consistency, seems like this should look
identical to a save dialog, since one is saving a file. Gedit's dialog
with "archive type" instead of "character coding" comes to mind.
-- 
Karim Nassar
Department of Computer Science
Box 15600, College of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Northern Arizona University,  Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
Office: (928) 523-5868 -=- Mobile: (928) 699-9221

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