So. I kind of like BOMArchiverHelper.app, the default OS X unzipping utility. However, it has quite a number of limitations. Most other unarchivers on OS X have interfaces that I don't like, or just don't work very well. Also, thanks to Windows' idiotic idea of using the current system encoding for filenames, I have tons of archives from Japan with Shift_JIS filenames, which none of the unarchivers on OS X I've tried will handle properly.
And so I, because I obviously don't have enough to do already, get the idea that I need to write a better unarchiver. Features I think it needs include:
For actual information on the current state of this project, read on!
Is there a way to prevent 'The Unarchiver' from taking focus when it opens? I have it decompressing my downloads, and whenever a download completes it comes to the front and I lose whatever I was typing.
I would ditto post 641. It would be preferrable to see the unarchiver appear in the dock and then dissapear when it is done decompressing. A dock icon badge that shows the status of the unzip would be nice although not essential.
Unarchiver needs to stop popping into the foreground.