Yeah...tar.gz option is there but I see many people ask for zip/unzip option often. Guess DA needs a massive re-hauling to compete with other panels having nice UI, etc.
I totally DISAGREE with the opinion expressed above.
Why would DA need "re-hauling" at all?
Nice GUI?
You can build your own skin to make it 'pleasing to your eyes'.
I love the simplicity, no bs fancy icons that are crowding the page and actually make it hard to find the right menu item.
You can customise the looks to make it fancy and you can 'massively re-haul' it yourself.
Functionality-wise, I find DA to be at the leading front of CP (perhaps even a notch better than others).
Bells and whistles that ring and make noise don't impress me.
For effective, debugable, customizable, flexible and easy to navigate control panel, I prefer (and yes, I do have the choice) to use DA over cPanel and Plesk.
Try to do anything outside of the cPanel-Way with a cPanel box and you won't get any support as it is "not the cPanel-way".
With Plesk (SW-SoFT), try to get free support for any ticket. See how far you go. Oh..and Free support within hours!
With cPanel, you will be routed to tier-1 support (wait few hours for a reply) and then if they still have issues, they will escalate it to tier-2 level support.
Why is it that there are simply no problems that needs N-Tiers support in DA? Have you seen the KX of DA? practically every issue that is a 'might have a problem' is already covered there with step-by-step solutions. Where is that with the 'nice UI' other panels?
Just my CAN$0.02.
-Alon.