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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Compress but not extract in dolphin?
From:       Anne Wilson <cannewilson () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2009-01-31 16:10:34
Message-ID: 200901311610.35407.cannewilson () googlemail ! com
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On Saturday 31 January 2009 13:29:55 Peter Penz wrote:
> Hi Anne,
>
> Am Saturday, 31. January 2009 14:09:31 schrieb Anne Wilson:
> > The context menu in (4.2) dolphin has an impressive list of options, but
> > I was surprised to see various archiving options, but no 'extract'.  Is
> > this yet to come, or is there some problem?
>
> This is out of scope of Dolphin itself :-( The so called "service menus"
> like 'compress', 'extract', ... etc. are usally provided by the
> applications which get called by the service menus (in this case Ark). So
> if 'extract' is missing, the Ark maintainers might give a hint why this is
> the case. BTW: in my environment (KDE 4.2.0, Suse packages) extract menus
> are shown in combination with an installed Ark.
>
> > Linux Format this month suggests a desktop file using karchiver to give
> > instant access to extraction.  Is there any reason why this could not be
> > done using ark?  Just wondering - and thinking of experimenting with that
> > this weekend :-)
>
> As mentioned above: In my environment 'extract' with Ark works perfectly, I
> don't know why karchiver has been recommended by Linux Format...
>
> Best regards,
> Peter
>
> PS: More details about service menus can be found at
> http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Development/Tutorials/Creating_Konq
>ueror_Service_Menus
>
Hmm - sorry for wasting your time.  All this intelligent processing is too 
much for me :-)  Extract (in various configurations) is offered when I point 
it to a suitable file, a tar.gz, for instance.

I sometimes think these magazine articles do more harm than good.  There are 
few dubious statements such as this, but the only thing you can do is write in 
to the Letters section, and by the time that appears the damage is already 
done :-(

Anne

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