File Roller Should Exit Automatically After Showing Extracted Files

[Rich Jones]

This is a workflow issue.

Very typical usage of File-Roller:

I download a zip file. I double click on this file to open it. File-roller opens. I extract my files to the desired location. File Roller asks me if I want to go to those files. I say yes, and Nautilus opens. I open my files and work on them.

The problem is that File Roller is left running in the background. I have no more use for this program, yet it remains open until I notice and close it.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

sorry for inconvinence but after thinking a bit I have come to a conclusion if
this feature gets implemented it will cause trouble for users if they only
extract a single file from an archive and clicking 'show extracted file' closes
file-roller but will be an annoyance if the user want to extract another file
from the archive then they have to again open the archive file.

[Alex Eftimie (alexeftimie)]

Every time I click 'show extracted files' I'm done with the archive, and I expect the file-roller window to disappear.

For the usecase you have mentioned, it can be easily done checking if the user have extracted the whole archive; if not, do not close the window on 'Show extracted file'.

[Vish (vish)]

If the archive has a single file and user selects "show files" , file-roller could close. [or even when all the files have been extracted]
This probably the most common user scenario.

But if the user has extracted only a single file from the archive , the file-roller can remain open.

Fixing this would not be trivial but is something that needs to be decided by the file-roller devs.

@om26er : kindly re-open the upstream bug report. Let the concerned devs decide if they are interested in fixing it or not.

[Vish (vish)]

Upstream bug report has been re-opened , users interested in this feature can comment and track the bug upstream > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606948