Re: Ark: extract and quick extract

On Saturday 18 July 2009 19:47:02 Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:

> How about the following:
>
> * Two different actions, "Quick extract" and "Extract", the latter
> showing the usual extraction dialog.
>
> * "Quick extract", on the other hand, tries to extract to the
> archive's directory. It only shows a popup message if something
> went wrong, 

and otherwise just a label in status bar "operation successful" 
(reason: visual feedback is a must in all cases).

> and the extraction progress can be seen in a 
> notification (this is how it currently works).

Yes! :-)

> However, with "quick extract" the user won't be able to choose
> whether she wants to preserve paths

What does it mean?

> or open the destination folder 
> after the extraction. 

Why not? 
a) there could be an option 
[ ] auto open folder after extraction

b) there could be a button in toolbar or status bar (similar to KMail) 
which opens the folder

> These can be done only via the extraction 
> dialog.

The above can be used with regular extract too. And the icon next 
to "unpacking successful" is useful, because it ties the context --> 
operation successful, what next, maybe showing the content, ok, it is 
right there. 

Cheers,
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