GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 166836
Extract dialog does not make clear which directory is the destination
Last modified: 2005-04-15 21:39:48 UTC
I'm always confused wheter the directory I'm viewing or the directory I've highlighted is the one to which my files are going to be extracted. The folder we are extracting to should be stated somewhere (or it should be absolutely clear anyway). Preferably the sequence of folder buttons should have a label "Extract files to:" above it and the file/folder listing should have a label "Browse to:". Otherwise a summary like "Destination folder: /home/user/Desktop" would be helpful. Other information: It especially makes little sense to me that it opens the desktop folder, highlights the first folder in the listing and places files inside that folder, although that could be considered a different bug.
I agree. Most of the time I have no idea where file-roller will extract to. If I have my home directory opened, it seems to select the first directory in my home dir. But once a directory is selected, I can't seem to unselect it. So, I have to navigate through my filesystem and make sure my home directory is selected and then press the extract button. Very confusing, indeed.
A such bug has been opened here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/6615 "When I open an archive and select extract, the extract dialog immediately highlights a directory in the right hand list. It will not unselect the directories. When I try to scroll down out of the directories, the highlight bar stops at the last directory. If I did nothing here except go ahead with the extract, it will extract to whatever directory was at the top of the list at the time."
This is the way gtkfilechooser works, there is nothing I can do. Reassigning to gtk+ to see what the gtk+ developers say.
right, reassign bug to owner of selected component too
So what happens now? As is, file-roller is unusable if you hit the Home button and expect it to extract there. If there are any other folders there, it's going to extract to one of them. If I want to extract to /home/bpack, and there's a /home/bpack/Desktop folder, I have to back out to /home to extract to /home/bpack.
*** Bug 168227 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 165069 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
any news on this ?
File-roller is *still* highlighting folders when I go to extract archives. I don't want it to. It insists on forcing me to go up a level to extract to the folder I REALLY want to extract to. Is there an option I haven't selected/deselected?
IIRC, (and I may be wrong about this): it didn't always act like this.
It didn't. If you clicked on a folder in the right hand list, it would open that folder. But that folder would not highlight *unless you performed an action to select it*. If you opened your Documents folder and simply hit extract. The archive contents would extract to the Documents folder, no matter how many other folders were in Documents. Now, if you want to extract to Documents, you have to back up one level higher, then highlight Documents, because otherwise file-roller will insist on extracting to one of the folders that is already in Documents. That makes file-roller damned-near useless in my opinion.
*** Bug 165149 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Indeed, this seems to have changed in 2.6 I think, and makes file-roller incredibly annoying to use. Paolo, as an (uuuugly) workaround you could use gtk_file_choose_set_file_name() instead of _current_folder(), but that's unobvious and hacky too... Bleh. Marking severity as major, it really breaks SELECT_FOLDER functionality, meaning no app using it can function properly.
*** Bug 170757 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is related to bug #162358.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171885 ***