Bug 404985

Summary:	Option to automatically extract archive file on save
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio	Reporter:	km <kmm>
Component:	Open/save dialogs	Assignee:	KIO Bugs <kio-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kdelibs-bugs-null, nate
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description km 2019-03-02 11:44:54 UTC

SUMMARY
When saving an archive file, eg. downloaded from the web, it would be great to have an option in the file save dialog to extract it immediately after saving. Or even save it only in an extracted form, without saving the archive itself.



I think it's very common situation: a user downloads an archive from a website, a file save dialog appears (depending on a browser settings), then one chooses location, saves the file. Then opens a file manager, goes to the save location, right-clicks the archive file, chooses to extract it, possible deletes the original archive. 

It would be much simpler if the file save dialog, detecting an archive file, showed an option to save extracted content of the archive instead of the archive itself. It could be a separate checkbox or an additional item in a filter combobox, like "Extracted archive content". I think the user's choice should be remembered as default (maybe for a given archive type).