From kde-core-devel  Thu Mar 29 16:12:40 2001
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:12:40 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Part loading where mimetype won't work and KIO filters.
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On Thursday 29 March 2001 17:04, Michael Jarrett wrote:
> David Faure wrote:
> > 
> > On Thursday 29 March 2001 15:24, Michael Jarrett wrote:
> > > David Faure wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thursday 29 March 2001 00:49, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> > > > > On Thursday 29 March 2001 00:03, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> > > > > > Perhaps the RMB menu could have extra items, so that if you copy
> > > > > > a .wav file, you get 'Copy Here/Copy here as Vorbis/Copy here as
> > > > > > MP3/Move/Link' ?
> > > > >
> > > > > Hmmm? Isn't that already possible?
> > > > >
> > > > > At least that explains why KDE doesn't have that  incredibly easy 'unzip to
> > > > > folder' thing for e.g. tar files that WinZip, WinRar and friends have ;-)
> > > >
> > > > You could add that very easily. Using a NoDisplay app bound to the mimetype,
> > > > or even better, using a service-menu entry (see kdebase/libkonq/SERVICEMENUS).
> > >
> > > Should I add this sort of functionality to ark:
> > > Make an action for various archives that will offer an "Extract to
> > > Folder" option, which would pop up ark, and give you the extract dialog
> > > with the correct folder and settings by default, then close after that
> > > dialog closes?
> > 
> > That would certainly be great !
> 
> Perhaps u know what I'm doing wrong here.
> 
> I figure by just going Actions=extract; in ark.desktop then making a
> [Desktop Action extract] section that the entries would appear on the
> konqeror menu.
> It seems this is not the case, or at least it doesn't work for me...

No, this has to be a separate .desktop file, to be installed under
share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/, see the SERVICEMENUS text file in libkonq.

The [Desktop Action ...] stuff from the spec is supported for .desktop
files only, i.e. when actually right-clicking a .desktop file.

Arguably this is a bug and what you're trying should work, though.
It's just that currently KDEDesktopMimeType::userDefinedServices
is only called for .desktop files and for the servicemenus.
Otherwise.... hmm, we'd need to query ksycoca for all apps
associated with a given mimetype, and gather the [Desktop Action] services
from there. Not too hard, just not done currently.

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