Bug#407906: file-roller: Large archives should be extracted after drop target was chosen

[Mathias Brodala]

Package: file-roller
Version: 2.14.4-2
Severity: important

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When I open a large archive (1GB for example) with file-roller, select all files
and drag and drop them into a directory, file-roller starts extracting the files
as soon as they are dragged. The problem is that I have too keep holding the
mouse button until file-roller has extracted all files to place them in the
target directory. If I release the button, file-roller immediately stops
extracting. To have to keep holding the mouse button all the time is a big
usability problem in my eyes.

The solution could be to handle the drop target first and extract the desired
files after that.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8)

Versions of packages file-roller depends on:
ii  bzip2              1.0.3-6               high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  gconf2             2.16.0-3              GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gzip               1.3.9-2               The GNU compression utility
ii  libatk1.0-0        1.12.4-1              The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0       2.14.0-3              Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6              2.3.6.ds1-10          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2          1.2.4-4               The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1     2.4.2-1               generic font configuration library
ii  libgconf2-4        2.16.0-3              GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0        1:2.6.0-4             library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.12.6-2              The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0        2.16.0-2              The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0       2.14.1-2              The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0     2.14.2-4              GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0        2.8.20-3~macmenubar-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnautilus-extens 2.14.3-7              libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2          1:2.14.4-1            libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0      1.14.8-5              Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0           1.10-3                lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libx11-6           2:1.0.3-4             X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1        1.1.7-4               X cursor management library
ii  libxext6           1:1.0.1-2             X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3         1:4.0.1-5             X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6             1:1.0.1-4             X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1       1:1.0.1-4.1           X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2         2:1.1.0.2-5           X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1        1:0.9.1-3             X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  tar                1.16-2                GNU tar
ii  unzip              5.52-9                De-archiver for .zip files
ii  zip                2.32-1                Archiver for .zip files

Versions of packages file-roller recommends:
ii  arj                        3.10.22-2     archiver for .arj files
pn  lzop                       <none>        (no description available)
ii  mkisofs                    9:1.1.2-1     Dummy transition package for genis
ii  p7zip                      4.43~dfsg.1-2 7zr file archiver with high compre
ii  rpm                        4.4.1-14      Red Hat package manager
ii  sharutils                  1:4.2.1-15    shar, unshar, uuencode, uudecode

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