Bug 333670

Summary:	Extracting specific files shouldn't preserve full root directory structure of but should keep directory structure of selected folder inside the folder
Product:	[Applications] ark	Reporter:	Sam Stoelinga <sammiestoel>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.19
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Sam Stoelinga 2014-04-21 02:50:35 UTC

Current result: When dragging a specific file from an archive with Ark to a specific folder in 
dolphin, the whole directory structure gets extracted.

Expected result: It should extract the dragged folder/file to the destination folder in dolphin. This is what some Archivers do for example in Windows or 7zip.

The same behaviour is seen when using the extract dialog when selecting specific files / folders. Using the don't preserve directory structure option also is useless because that wont keep the directory structure of the lowerlevel folders that I selected.

I'm planning to make a small video showing the behaviour with notes if it's not clear what I mean.

Please note I'm not saying this because other archivers do this, but because this behaviour is more convenient and user friendly imo. Feels more intuitive.
I'm planning to work on this myself as soon as I have some free time.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Raphael Kubo da Costa 2014-04-21 10:25:35 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 208384 ***