<auspex> Looking at the screenshots:  All of the prefs can be eliminated. Compression is an archive property - and sometime the property of just one file in the archive. Visible columns can be controlled from the View menu.
<paobac> auspex: the compression level is used when adding files to the archive, it's not an archive property.
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<seth> clarkbw: What about "Zip Creator" ?
<seth> clarkbw: Its not as slick and cool as "Archiver", but I think its going to be more recognizable
<clarkbw> paobac, isn't the level a file independent setting?
<clarkbw> seth, i'd stand behind "Zip Creator" :-)
<dowem_> damnit another fire drill
<paobac> clarkbw: yes
<clarkbw> recognizability and action
<dowem_> IT seems zip creator is a good menu entry
<dowem_> since poeple clicking in the menu would be likeley to want to create an archive.
<seth> In System Tools
<clarkbw> paobac, perhaps a level menu below Edit would be better for changing this
<dowem_> using it via double clicking a tar file or something is thhe natural way to extract the file
<auspex> paobac: pkZip (and so JAR) is both an archive and compression format/algorithm. An MPEG added to a zip is usually left uncompressed because MPEG is a compressed format. Plain text, on the other hand, is usually compressed, but may not be in some cases for speed; e.g., OpenOffice files.
<js> i still think packing stuff up is arguably a real world task.
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<paobac> clarkbw: it's not applied on the fly, the compression level is used the next time you add or delete a file from the archive.
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<clarkbw> paobac, is it possible to apply on the fly?
<paobac> clarkbw: yes, saving it each time
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<paobac>  clarkbw: it can be a very expensive operation
<paobac> clarkbw: time expensive
<clarkbw> paobac, an entire resave would need to be done?
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<paobac> clarkbw: yes
<clarkbw> paobac, would you say this is something changed often, just once, or hardly ever?
<paobac> hardly ever
<paobac> maybe we can always use a medium level compression and remove the option from the ui
<js> seems reasonable
<js> in my experience the size difference between different compression levels isn't that huge either.
<clarkbw> paobac, ok and i don't believe we need the options for visible columns either
<clarkbw> paobac, your defaults are fine
<paobac> clarkbw: ok
<clarkbw> this will get rid of the prefenences menu entirely
<paobac> clarkbw: yes
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