Remove "Compress" contract

Bug #1264367 reported by Danielle Foré
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elementary OS
New
Low
elementary UX

Bug Description

Compress doesn't really seem to make sense outside of the file manager. Showing it in an app like Scratch is a huge "wtf" moment.

Perhaps we should remove this contract and instead make it a Files plugin

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Harvey Cabaguio (harveycabaguio) wrote :

Well in Photos you could select multiple files and compress them. Would that be a useful feature to keep? Maybe there should be away for the compress contract to only show if its dealing with multiple files?

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote :

That sounds like a valid workaround. Can you think of a case where not being able to compress a single file would be unacceptable? I guess if you wanted to do that you could stick it in a folder or something.

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Harvey Cabaguio (harveycabaguio) wrote :

I guess if someone had a big file that they wanted to compress it would be unacceptable? I don't know how likely that is though.

Changed in elementaryos:
milestone: none → loki+1-beta1
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in elementaryos:
importance: Undecided → Low
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