Bug 195760

Summary:	browsing archives does not allow drag and drop, cut, copy and paste
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	m.wege
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	elvis.angelaccio
Priority:	NOR
Version:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description m.wege 2009-06-09 11:52:13 UTC

Version:           1.2.80 (using 4.2.90 (KDE 4.2.90 (KDE 4.3 Beta2)), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.30-020630rc6-generic

When browsing a zip archive I can not do much apart from browsing through it and copy a file out of the archive. What does not working is draging and dropping a file from out the archive in the archive, moving a file within the archive. Since browsing an archive within Dolphin looks like you within a folder I consider this a bug because it does not give you a feedback that this is not supposed to work. The wish part of this report is: Would be cool if it worked.

Comment 1 Peter Penz 2009-06-09 16:32:31 UTC

Thanks for the report. This restriction was the main reason why browsing through archives is disabled per default: From a technical point of view implementing drag & drop between archives is very difficult - it would be required to zip/unzip archives on the fly, which cannot be done fast enough for doing it synchronously in the scope of a file manager (at least not as part of the used IO slave).

However from a users point of view I fully agree that this would be nice.

Comment 2 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 2012-08-24 16:18:36 UTC

Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719

Comment 3 Elvis Angelaccio 2017-01-14 14:02:52 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 77127 ***