#5729 NORM Never A: strange zip file handling

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#5729: strange zip file handling
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 Reporter:  skierpage  |       Owner:  Eben          
     Type:  defect     |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal     |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  design     |     Version:  Build 650     
 Keywords:             |    Verified:  0             
 Blocking:             |   Blockedby:                
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 Summary: click on a .zip file in Browse, it appears in Journal but only
 Etoys offers to run it.  Etoys can extract the zip contents to your drive
 but it's not integrated with the Journal or very Sugar-ized.

 Steps to Reproduce:
 In Browse I went to http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/121 and clicked on the
 compressed HTML file http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext94/nabby11h.zip.

 Browse downloaded the file, I found it in Journal.

 In Journal, click the zip file and hover over Resume, only Etoys would
 open it.

 Etoys displays a blank screen with a small menu at top left overlapping
 its menu strip asking whether to "open in zip viewer/extract all to..."

 If I choose "extract all to..." Etoys shows a file picker and I can
 extract to, e.g. /olpc/home.  The zip file seemed to disappear from the
 Journal and the extracted file doesn't appear in the Journal.

 Then if I'm knowledgeable about the OLPC file system I can use Browse to
 navigate to the uncompressed content, e.g. file:///home/olpc/nabby11h.htm

 If I instead choose "open in zip viewer", Etoys shows a gadget for
 handling zip files with several text action boxes with illegibly tiny
 characters.

 Expected:
 I'm not sure, but this doesn't seem like the best UI for handling
 compressed files.  The Etoys zip file handling has bugs and is not in the
 Sugar/Journal spirit, but it's the only workaround going.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5729>
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