GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 167261
Archives without a "Extract Here" (Nautilus integration) not useful anymore (regression!)
Last modified: 2005-08-18 11:40:58 UTC
Please describe the problem: -- Please note that although this is more a usablility problem I filed as normal because it is a big regression from previous releases -- The problems: 1.) I use the "Extract Here" from the Nautilus right-click-menu quite often and used to extract more than one archives most of the time. This is not possible anymore in 2.9.x, when selecting multiple archives i can only "Create Archive". 2.) File-Roller now extracts archives to <archive name>_FILES. while i see that this can be handy when extracting archives that don't contain a top-level directory i don't see the use of this when extracting, for example, GNOME release tarballs. It's just _very_ anoying. Steps to reproduce: Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? yes Other information: I hope these issues will be fixed befor 2.10 as they really are bad usability regressions.
Agreed. You should be able to select more than one archive and extract them simultaneously. I can also confirm the behavior of file-roller extracting archives into new folders called: <archive name>_FILES. This may be helpful for when an archive does not contain directories. I find most archives taking the responsibility and contains their own top-level directory or directories containing their files. This does indeed make the "Extact Here" less useful. With the current method, I have to extract the archive, move the files from the <archive name>_FILES directory, then delete the <archive name>_FILES directory. I find myself not using it and actually opening up file-roller and choosing to extract all files. Most of the time I just want to extract it to my home directory. But, the first directory within my home directory is chosen so I need to manually select my home dir and then extract. The usability has gone from 2 mouse clicks to about 5 or 6.
what really got me was when i (manually, from release tarballs) updated my gnome installation to the latest beta release. previously, this was "select all tarballs, rightclick and extract". now it is "rightclick every tarball on his own, extract and then move folders around" which brings me from 2 clicks to something around 150 i guess...
Created attachment 38882 [details] [review] Restores 2.8 behaviour where file was extracted in the dir it is in
Created attachment 38884 [details] [review] Much cleaner patch
Will Jan's patch go into cvs? What about the muliple archives? Could we please get some words from a maintainer? thx
*** Bug 168388 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Somebody tell that the patch has been / will be applied, please. The current behavior is a reason for me to return to the bash and feel happier there.
Both points are adressed in CVS HEAD... reverting to 2.8.x behaviour as far as I can tell. I'm using this right now and I'm quite happy with it. This bug could be closed... or can we expect more changes? One thing that would be cool would be to create a folder if the archive doesn't contain a top level directory (e.g. most zip files)
Bug #168388 is about creating a root folder when and only when the archive doesn't contain a root folder. Maybe this bug should be re-opened, and this one closed ?
Bug 168388 seems like a good way to fix this...
Closing this bug because the original issue seems to be resolved. Further discussion about feature improvements in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168388