Bug 409878

Summary:	Impossible to create an archive containing other archives of the same type via Dolphin
Product:	[Applications] ark	Reporter:	Patrick Silva <bugseforuns>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Elvis Angelaccio <elvis.angelaccio>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	dave, justin.zobel, rthomsen6
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	20.04.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Patrick Silva 2019-07-16 22:28:45 UTC

SUMMARY
I want to use Dolphin to create an archive containing other archives.
Currently such task is impossible.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. have two or more archives and select them in Dolphin
2. right click on any selected archive
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT
you can not create an archive because "Compress" entry
is missing in the context menu.

EXPECTED RESULT
"Compress" entry is available in the context menu.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS 
Linux/KDE Plasma: Arch Linux
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.60
Qt Version: 5.13

Comment 1 Patrick Silva 2019-09-20 14:33:25 UTC

This behavior is only reproducible if the selected archives are of the same type.
Two tar.xz archives, for example.

Comment 2 David Gasaway 2020-09-07 05:18:31 UTC

Even for a single "archive" file, it may make sense to apply compression.  For example, I'd like to compress some (uncompressed) ISO files, but the Compress menu is not available currently.

Comment 3 Justin Zobel 2020-11-09 04:27:09 UTC

I can confirm this issue on dolphin from git master.

I took a moment and though of a use case for this:
- I want to transfer 500 tar.xz files to a friend, I tar.xz them all (using no compression) into a larger file for transport.

Comment 4 Patrick Silva 2021-01-18 11:07:24 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 430086 ***