a) add an option for the player to decide whether "packing" is the default action when picking up a relevant object is the default or not. I don't always want things packed. I regularly have boxes that I want/expect the contents dispersed into my inventory.
b) add a hot key (is shift-right-click available? ctrl ?) that will invoke the opposite of whatever is default, ie if default is to pack, using the hotkey when picking up a box would NOT pack it.
c) add an option to set the default action for robots when picking up a relevant object. ie whether or not robots pick a box (etc) up as a packed object or a standard object and contents
In my opinion these options would make this mod an order of magnitude more useful and shouldnt be too hard to implement.

for 1) and 2) I can repurpose the old hotkey to toggle whether to pack chests or not along with a shortcut bar icon. As for 3), it's shouldn't be too hard to adapt it but I'll consider it for balancing purposes.

awsome, i look forward to the updates =)

I added bot support to packing chests. It uses the shortcut state when the deconstruction planner is used to determine whether to pack the chest or not. It still dispatches a bunch of bots to try to empty the chest though.

Must be 2 for 1 Monday. Thanks for the efforts. =)