The Inside Track on Firefox Development.

« Adventures in Linux | Main | Firefox Stuff! »

March 19, 2004

Extracting Compressed Files

I know there are a bunch of more reliable ways to extract files than the one I described in my last entry in this category.

There need be no "File Roller" - nautilus should handle compressed files itself as a special kind of view. There need be only a couple of entry points.

  1. Dragging the desired files out of an archive extracts them. Once a destination is dropped into, a progress dialog may appear if much work needs to be done.
  2. A toolbar button for extracting all/the selection.
  3. A context menu item for extracting the selection.

No extra apps, no duelling progress dialogs, most of all no dialogs during the drag process. A slick, integrated experience. As it stands I think it's back to tar -xzvf for me.

Posted by ben at March 19, 2004 11:36 PM

©1997-2006 Ben Goodger. All Rights Reserved.
Opinions expressed here are my own, and not those of any organization that I may be affiliated with.
Reload icon is © Stephen Horlander;
Firefox logo is by Jon Hicks, and is a trademark of The Mozilla Foundation.
GetFirefox buttons are from rakaz

eXTReMe Tracker