Behaviour for archives inconsistent depending on format
For a few releases now archive extraction has been integrated into nautilus so that the default action on tar
archive files is extracting them in the current directory. Right click menu offers “Extract here” as first item, and “Extract to” further down. This should be the behaviour for all archive files.
zip
files have the same two menu entries listed, but default action is still the old “Open with Archive Manager”.
rar
files don’t offer the extraction menu items at all and also have “Open with Archive Manager” as their default action.