[dolphin] [Bug 497524] New: When opting to "extract here and delete" for archives, auto select the extracted files

[Nyall Dawson]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497524

            Bug ID: 497524
           Summary: When opting to "extract here and delete" for archives,
                    auto select the extracted files
    Classification: Applications
           Product: dolphin
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: dolphin-bugs-null at kde.org
          Reporter: nyall.dawson at gmail.com
                CC: kfm-devel at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

The "extract here and delete" functionality is great for keeping folders nice
and clean, but there's a usability issues if the folder containing the archive
contains many items.

Specifically, it's very difficult to locate the extracted files if you didn't
know their names before performing the action. The files will get merged into
the existing files... And if there's a lot of those, it's impossible to work
out what's been extracted. You can't sort reliably by date because the original
extracted file dates are used. So often I end up having to re-download archives
(because the original was deleted by the action 🤣), so that I can manually open
them and see what the files contained within are called. 

I suggest that the extracted files could all be auto selected after running the
action, and the view could scroll to show the selection. Or in the case that a
folder was created to contain the extracted files, dolphin could automatically
just open that new folder.

This would make a very handy feature even better! 😁

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