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make path that holds an archive the default extract path
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Severity:
enhancement
Product:
Xarchiver
Component:
general

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Description Bj 2006-06-08 23:09:16 CEST
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060504 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060504 Firefox/1.5.0.3

i think it would be nice to have the folder that contains the archive you want to extract as the default path for extraction. i suggest to have that path pre-entered in the "Extract to:" field in the extract dialog.
maybe even the path and the name of the archive as a new folder (+ a checkbox to disable the "new folder" option in the extract prefs and have its setting saved).

many tools for windows do it that way and i think it's way better than always have the user enter ".", the path or open the file chooser and press "ok" directly after opening it just to select the current folder for quick extraction into the current dir (or the subdir which has the archives name without extension).

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Giuseppe Torelli 2006-06-13 13:21:37 CEST
I will see what I can do for accomplishing your request.
Comment 2 Giuseppe Torelli 2006-06-26 09:08:59 CEST
Done in r22201.

Bug #1907

Reported by:
Bj
Reported on: 2006-06-08
Last modified on: 2006-06-26

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Assignee:
Giuseppe Torelli
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