Implement README TODOs: progress bar, compression level, drag-and-drop#2
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[WIP] Implement TODO tasks from README
Implement README TODOs: progress bar, compression level, drag-and-drop
Mar 2, 2026
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Three long-standing TODO items in the README were unimplemented. This PR adds all three.
Progress bar
ZipController.do_subprocessnow usesPopenwith chunked stdout reading instead ofcheck_call, parsing 7zip's\r-delimited\d+%progress tokensprogress_callback: Optional[Callable[[float], None]]parameter threads fromcompress→start_thread→do_subprocessGLib.idle_addfor safe cross-thread GTK updates; progress bar resets to 0 on each new compressionsubprocess.CalledProcessErrorMore compression options
SpinButton(0–9, default 5) to the toolbar; value passed asleveltoZipController.compress(the parameter already existed but was hardcoded at the call site)Drag and drop
TreeViewconfigured as a URI drop target viadrag_dest_set+drag_dest_add_uri_targetson_drag_data_receiveddecodes dropped URIs withurllib.parse.urlparse+unquote, deduplicates againstfile_list, and appends to both the list store and internal state💡 You can make Copilot smarter by setting up custom instructions, customizing its development environment and configuring Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Learn more Copilot coding agent tips in the docs.