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Many times you get compressed files, and if you want to decompress them you can choose between getting the files in current folder or in a new filename.without.extension/ folder (for example, you can extract file.tar.gz here or in file/).

But the problem is in the contents, because even considering linux people do usually put files in a folder before compressing (so you extract files "here", and you get the file/ folder created) many people do not follow this rule. You have to open the file to check it, or extract here and "see what happens", or by default extract to file/ and move the contents one folder back if the compressed file already had the folder inside.

The idea is providing some kind of file preview, just to indicate this without having to extract it or launch ark. Of course it would be a problem if you do this with all files, mostly with big files, so being able to limit the size of the compressed files where this behavior is active would be interesting.

Regards

For some compressed files ark provides a kio slave that lets you browse inside them directly in Dolphin. For others, it doesn't.

Recently the "Extract Archive Here, Autodetect Subfolder" option was added to the context menu (e.g. in Dolphin). Using it, will extract the archive into a subfolder if and only if it doesn't contain a folder.

If this already exists then the goal of the preview is done, and considering this I think the piece of software required for this would add nothing more than extra resources needs, so..

Anyway for controlling purposes may still be interesting.

Regards