[dolphin] [Bug 440663] New Dolphin window or tab opened after compression/extraction when certain default options are disabled, or when the job is canceled, or when the Dolphin window that initiated it is closed

[Steve Vialle]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440663

--- Comment #66 from Steve Vialle <steve_v at orcon.net.nz> ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #59)
> Backported; it should show up in 21.12.1.
>
Thanks. :)

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #61)
> Ultimately here is what I think makes sense:
> 
> Extracting within Ark:
> - always respect the setting to open a filemanager or not after the job is
> done
> 
> Extracting or compressing from Dolphin's context menu item:
> - open a new window after the job is done only when Ark's setting for that
> is set to true and also when any of the following conditions apply:
> -- Dolphin isn't running anymore
> -- A Dolphin window is open but its view is not showing the
> extraction/compression location
>
If my 2c are worth anything at all:
The first bit, absolutely.
As for the second... Personally I'd quite like this whole idea to just go away,
i.e. return to KDE 5.22.4 behaviour and leave service-menu (de)compression as
an unobtrusive background task. 
As an added bonus, reverting this whole can-o-worms is likely the quickest and
easiest solution as well.

Frankly I don't see how raising/focusing/opening file manager windows/tabs like
this will be anything but an irritant to the (desktop) user, and if
focus-stealing after a background job really is the goal here, I'd _very_ much
like to see an option (ideally in dolphin) to turn it off. 
Focus stealing is, after all, evil incarnate.

We already have a notification system for notifying about background jobs, why
not just use that instead of all this buggering about trying to pick a
window/tab/yak to raise and somewhere sane to put yet more options? 
As Luke suggests above, all it really needs is an "Open Containing Folder"
button for compression operations.

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