when adding a folder to an archive, i think the common usage is that you want all the stuff in this folder to be added too, so i think xarchiver should recurse subdirectories by default, imho. you can't drog 'n drop folders to the archive with its content because you can't specify if you want to have all the files and folders in the dnd'ed directory in the archive, too. btw, the option should not be called "recurse subdirectories", imho. i don't think that this name tells the user what it does very good. something like "include content of directories" or sth like that makes more sense.
(In reply to comment #0) > btw, the option should not be called "recurse subdirectories", imho. > i don't think that this name tells the user what it does very good. something > like "include content of directories" or sth like that makes more sense. Would something like "include sub-directories" be a better choice?
"include" sounds better than "recurse", but the name still wouldn't tell the user that this function is also needed to include all the files in a directory. if you don't enable this function, then only an empty directory is added to the archive (which doesn't make sense to me anyway...).
adding folders and their content by using dnd works..
(In reply to comment #2) > "include" sounds better than "recurse", but the name still wouldn't tell the > user that this function is also needed to include all the files in a directory. > if you don't enable this function, then only an empty directory is added to the > archive (which doesn't make sense to me anyway...). > I changed the tooltip to: Include everything in the directory recursively starting from the current directory. Hope this way the user gets the point.
The user should know what is doing. The tooltip clearly states that by checking the "recurse" option everything inside that directory is added too.