GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 702693
Annoying dialog appears each time I compress files
Last modified: 2020-11-11 19:14:10 UTC
I am using Ubuntu 13.04, and, each time I compress some files and create an archive, an annoying dialog shows up: "X has been successfully created" with buttons "Open archive" and "Close". So, each time I create an archive, I have one extra click to do. If I remember well, this didn't happen with older versions. I think it is really annoying, because in the 99% of the times you compress some files, the last thing you want to do is open the new archive. And if you want to do so, you just have to double-click the new file, because you will have it just in front of you. Instead of this dialog, it should just show up a notification, so the user knows that the compression has finished (I think this was the way it worked before). (P.S.: I have file-roller with Basque interface, so the message in the dialog may not be exact, but I hope you will understand which dialog I am refering to)
Unfortunately this "feature" is still present in file-roller since 4 years. I always thought that GNOME developers know old good unix rule: "No message is a good message". Take a look at other tools. If program executed with ExitStaus=0, there are no messages at all. And that is how file-roller should behave. After successful creation of archive, there be *no message at all* Actually, this is how it was working in the past, and we should get back to that behaviour.
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