Well, v. 1.7 out, and still no news about this promised feature (after 1 year and 36 weeks according to the feature request creation date)... Is there an estimated ETA other than "in one of the next versions"?
When I registered this product, it was just after having seen the answer on this post where the author promised that this feature was gonna be part of the product. This is a really needed feature for me, to be able to right-click on a folder & compress it using betterzip, or to right-click on an archive and uncompress it with betterzip.
Of course, I know that for the uncompress option, there's the shortcut for direct extraction which could partly do the trick... But as a keyboard user I completely disagree with the change introduced in version 1.6 ("I have changed the shortcut for direct extraction from Command to Control+Command, because holding down the Command key was not sufficient for keyboard users, since they need to hold down the Command key in any case."). Have you really tried this shortcut ? We can't open files from the finder by pressing Command+Control+O, so we have to use a very tough gymnastic which is to first press Command+O, then (without releasing those), press the Control key as well, so that BetterZip understands we want a direct extraction... This is absolutely useless, & I have to try at least three times before doing that fast enough on my Mac... The old shortcut (Command key pressed while opening) was really easier: to open the file in BetterZip without direct extraction, we just had to press Command+O & release it immediately, and to use direct extraction, we had to press Command+O as well, just this time we needed to keep the Command touch pressed.
I really think you should switch back to the old shortcut, or at list provide a way to change back to it if needed (a defaults write would do the trick if you don't wanna put this in the configuration dialogs, even though this could be better).
Anyway, I still think your product is the best solution available on the Mac, but I really need the contextual menu, & a usable shortcut.
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Well, v. 1.7 out, and still no news about this promised feature (after 1 year and 36 weeks according to the feature request creation date)... Is there an estimated ETA other than "in one of the next versions"?
When I registered this product, it was just after having seen the answer on this post where the author promised that this feature was gonna be part of the product. This is a really needed feature for me, to be able to right-click on a folder & compress it using betterzip, or to right-click on an archive and uncompress it with betterzip.
Of course, I know that for the uncompress option, there's the shortcut for direct extraction which could partly do the trick... But as a keyboard user I completely disagree with the change introduced in version 1.6 ("I have changed the shortcut for direct extraction from Command to Control+Command, because holding down the Command key was not sufficient for keyboard users, since they need to hold down the Command key in any case."). Have you really tried this shortcut ? We can't open files from the finder by pressing Command+Control+O, so we have to use a very tough gymnastic which is to first press Command+O, then (without releasing those), press the Control key as well, so that BetterZip understands we want a direct extraction... This is absolutely useless, & I have to try at least three times before doing that fast enough on my Mac... The old shortcut (Command key pressed while opening) was really easier: to open the file in BetterZip without direct extraction, we just had to press Command+O & release it immediately, and to use direct extraction, we had to press Command+O as well, just this time we needed to keep the Command touch pressed.
I really think you should switch back to the old shortcut, or at list provide a way to change back to it if needed (a defaults write would do the trick if you don't wanna put this in the configuration dialogs, even though this could be better).
Anyway, I still think your product is the best solution available on the Mac, but I really need the contextual menu, & a usable shortcut.
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