GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 606948
File Roller Should Exit Automatically After clicking 'Showing Extracted Files'
Last modified: 2020-11-11 19:12:52 UTC
originally suggested at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/490616 "I download a zip file. I double click on this file to open it. File-roller opens. I extract my files to the desired location. File Roller asks me if I want to go to those files. I say yes, and Nautilus opens. I open my files and work on them. The problem is that File Roller is left running in the background. I have no more use for this program, yet it remains open until I notice and close it."
sorry for inconvinence but after thinking a bit I have come to a conclusion if this feature gets implemented it will cause trouble for users if they only extract a single file from an archive and clicking 'show extracted file' closes file-roller but will be an annoyance if the user want to extract another file from the archive then they have to again open the archive file.
"If the archive has a single file and user selects "show files" , file-roller could close. [or even when all the files have been extracted] This probably the most common user scenario. But if the user has extracted only a single file from the archive , the file-roller can remain open."
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