With the version of the directory chooser that file-roller uses to select where
I should put the files when unpacking, the files go in the selected directory
(if one is selected) rather than the directory which's listing I see.

That might or mightn't be fine if it weren't for the annoyance that the top
directory (usually the first one alphabetically) becomes selected by default. I
always go "huh? where did my files go?" then do an ls -rt in the directory where
I *thought* my files should be; find that a subdirectory with a name that comes
early in the alphabet is recently altered, and find my files in that.

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Please comment, if my phrasing was unclear; I'm more or less typing in my sleep atm.