Bug 139510

Summary:	Introduce multiple views (eg. listview, icon view etc.)
Product:	[Applications] ark	Reporter:	Don Smith <don.smith>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Elvis Angelaccio <elvis.angelaccio>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	angel_blue_co2004, dweeble01103, patricklavoie, rakuco
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.6.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description Don Smith 2007-01-02 16:15:36 UTC

Version:           2.6.1 (using KDE KDE 3.5.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

Ark 2.5.2 (KDE 3.4.2 under SUSE Linux 10.0) had a list view style interface. Ark 2.6.1 (KDE 3.5.1) uses a nested tree view. I wish there was an option to use the older Ark's view, as it was much more useful to me. I prefer to see the files, not just upper-level folders.

The search function is much less useful in the new view, since the results only display the upper-level folders that contain files that match the search criteria, forcing the user to open each successive folder to get down to the actual files. There isn't even an "expand all" function.

Please add an option for the "classic view" or whatever you want to call it.

Comment 1 Martin Koller 2007-04-15 23:10:21 UTC

Here on my KDE-3.5.6, ark opens all folders in the tree when I open an archive. So you can see all files in all levels, and also the filter field then acts on all entries in the archive.
Is that what you want ?

Comment 2 Don Smith 2007-04-16 01:54:23 UTC

I see the same thing in the version of ark I'm using now. One of the recent patches I applied must have changed the behavior.

This is a much better view, and the search now shows the files, not just upper-level folders.

However, it's not possible to sort the view on file name, regardless of folder. I would like to be able to do that too. If ark had the option to enable the behavior it used to have, it would be much more useful to me. Currently I have to use fileroller from gnome for some tasks that ark used to be fine for.

Comment 3 Harald Hvaal 2008-08-18 16:15:27 UTC

This might even be done using dolphin components

Comment 4 Angel Blue01 2009-03-10 19:35:30 UTC

I'm not sure what this issue is about. Ark 2.12 seems to list contents in details view, but it still forces folders to be displayed as such, not providing a list of all files in the archive (which is what I'd like) regardless of folders.

Comment 5 Raphael Kubo da Costa 2010-05-07 16:42:38 UTC

*** Bug 236694 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Raphael Kubo da Costa 2010-12-08 02:18:28 UTC

Changing the default assignee in the currently open Ark bug reports to me.

Comment 7 Raphael Kubo da Costa 2015-01-10 15:06:45 UTC

*** Bug 342693 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 05:23:01 UTC

Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.