Batch File Upload / Operations

Now that the integration with fckeditor is well in hand, I would really like to see the next items the community tackles be the following:

- Allow changes of permissions, change of ownership, resize of images, deletion, etc of multiple files at once. I see this working similar to the user batch editing in d6.x core: checkboxes next to each file, and a set of batch actions as a dropdown above all files. An additional checkbox would allow for toggling all checkboxes on/off with one click.

- Batch upload of multiple files via javascript recursive upload of a local folder or via standard archive formats (zip, bz2, gz, rar, etc). If an archive file is uploaded, give the user the option of keeping it as an archive file, extracting in current folder, extracting in a new subfolder, and/or removing the archive after extraction.

These two features would allow webfm to be the file manager of choice for all of the "image gallery from a server folder full of images" setups that are out there. Ultimately, this would also allow upload of photos from mobile browsers to a drupal blog/image gallery/filesharing site with fewer total steps for the end user.