Bug 107550

Summary: Wish: option to save and extract downloaded archive file
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] kio Reporter: monstermunch
Component: uiserverAssignee: David Faure <faure>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description monstermunch 2005-06-16 19:58:59 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 3.4.1 Level "a" , SUSE 9.2 UNSUPPORTED)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5 20040809)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.8-24.16-default

Example:
User goes to website.
User clicks a zip/tar file they want to download.
The select file dialog appears asking them where they want to save their file.
They pick somewhere and wait for the file to download.
They then navigate to where the file was saved to.
They right-click the file, select compress and then extract the file using Ark.

I believe this action is very common to all users. Whenever an archive file is downloaded, the first action the user will do is extract it. My wish is that the file dialog would offer an option to download and extract the file in one go, should it detect that the file is an archive. This would be great for usability and general productivity as they wouldn't have to go through the process of understanding what compress files were and how to go about extracting them.

For example:
User clicks on download.zip in webpage.
Konqueror detects that this file is an archive (i.e. of type zip, tar, tar.gz) using the konqueror file types.
A dialog appears saying "This file contains several files inside it, which you probably want to view. Would you like to extract these files after it is downloaded?"
If they say no, continue as usual. If they say yes, let the user pick a directory where the files will be extracted to after the archive has been downloaded.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-04-16 21:09:44 UTC
Konqueror is unmaintained and this doesn't seem likely, sorry.