Bug 213190

Summary:	Compression options in Dolphin are mislabelled and very limited
Product:	[Applications] ark	Reporter:	David Dempster <david.linguist>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Harald Hvaal <metellius>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	frank78ac, rakuco
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description David Dempster 2009-11-05 03:32:32 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

By right-clicking on a file in Nautilus (GNOME), and choosing ‘Compress...’, I get the following lovely list of options:

.7z
.Z
.ar
.arj
.bz2
.cbr
.exe (self-extracting ZIP)
.gz
.jar
.lzma
.lzo
.rar
.rz
.tar
.tar.7z
.tar.Z
.tar.bz2
.tar.gz
.tar.lzma
.tar.lzo
.zip
.zoo

In Dolphin, it says:

Here
As ZIP Archive
As RAR Archive
As ZIP/TAR Archive
Compress to...

‘Here’ and ‘ZIP/TAR’ both do the same thing: they create a .tar.gz archive!  Even if you choose ‘Compress to...’ (which you could say is more comparable to the GNOME behaviour), the list of options is puny compared to what GNOME offers.

The bug is that two of the options are mislabelled.

The wish is that a reasonable number of options (.tar.bz2 at least!) should be added to the context menu.

(More should be added to Ark too, but that's different.)

Comment 1 Frank Reininghaus 2009-11-06 00:00:47 UTC

> (More should be added to Ark too, but that's different.)

I don't think it's different - AFAIK, the compression-related context menu actions are provided by Ark, so this is probably an Ark issue?

Comment 2 Raphael Kubo da Costa 2009-11-06 14:39:36 UTC

Well, this is actually a duplicate of more than one bug.

For the supported archive formats, there are wishlist items for quite a lot of those formats (see bug 192630 for example).

For the context menu, see bug 198227.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 198227 ***