GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 227542
Please add right-click action to Zip/gzip compress attachment
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:37:25 UTC
Wishlist item: Please could a right-click action be added to attachment icons which allows for them to be compressed via zip or gzip after they are attached. I quite frequently attach a file uncompressed, only to realize it is bigger than I thought, so I have to unattach it, compress it, and re-attach the compressed version. I think it would be nice to have this performable via right-click. Thank you!
this is perfect for a third-party contributor to do.
adding eplugin keyword
the attachment popup is a little rough but maybe there is enough information to use it. if not, it should be fixed to allow it
*** Bug 261230 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
tweaked the summary to get the word "compress" in there and help make it easier to find this report next time. hiding features behind right click or context menu makes them harder to discover so I would hope a developer could find a way to present this feature so that all users could see it and make use of it. perhaps if there was some way to password protect an attachment (which would definately require compression anyway) then you could kill two birds with one stone. or maybe there would be some way to prompt users to compress automatically when they attach certain types or sizes of attachment? bug 300655 is part of my motiviation for commenting here. The bug report says users "need" to create Zip files but do not realise they need an Archive manager. I was thinking email was one place where compression could be better integrated so users do not need to understand as much about zip files and archives. There is probably a lot which could be done to improve the habits of people who attach a lot of files into email, such as making it easier to upload files somewhere and send links instead. what I'd really like to see is a great big cluestick which smacks users who attach Office documents containing only text (not even formatted text most of the time) instead of pasting it into the body of the email. even a decent summary and description would help prevent the time wasting of opening yet another program to read "URGENT" attachments which are just useless crap from inHuman Resources.
Bumping version to a stable release.
*** Bug 502400 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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