Re: Ark: extract and quick extract

On Saturday 18 July 2009 21:18:24 Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:

> >> However, with "quick extract" the user won't be able to choose
> >> whether she wants to preserve paths
> >
> > What does it mean?
>
> If you don't preserve paths, all files will be extracted to one
> single place. That is, if you have "foo", "folder/bar" and
> "other_folder/bar/baz" in your archive, "foo", "bar" and "baz" will
> be extracted to one single folder.

You mean:
archive/foo
archive/bar
archive/baz

flat unpacking, right? Quick extract should preserve all the paths, 
unpack with keeping the structure of the folders.

> >> or open the destination folder
> >> after the extraction.
> >
> > Why not?
> > a) there could be an option
> > [ ] auto open folder after extraction
>
> You mean an item under the Settings menu, like we currently have
> "Show statusbar"? In this case, there'd be duplication of the
> option in the extraction dialog.

The widget would be duplicated but the meaning -- not. The global 
settings would be applied only to quick extract.

> > 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.
>
> I didn't understand this part.

If there is some (likely) sequence of actions it is good if UI put the 
actions next to each other, it is bad if the actions are scattered.

This is status bar

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user unpacks archive (with success). She/he reads:

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unpacking XYZ successful @@@@@@@@@@@@
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@ denotes unread yet message

if it was all user wanted, ok, but if user wanted to see unpacked 
files, all it takes is to keep reading

-----------------------------------------------
unpacking XYZ successful [ ^ ]
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[ ^ ] it is nice open icon. User clicks, and voila, see the content of 
the unpacked archive.

Cheers,
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