Bug 444878

Summary:	Ability to cut/copy files from an archive
Product:	[Applications] ark	Reporter:	Patrick Silva <bugseforuns>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Elvis Angelaccio <elvis.angelaccio>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aacid, clay, lazar.nenkov.lazarov, nate, nicolas.fella, rthomsen6
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	23.04.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	screen recording

Description Patrick Silva 2021-11-03 12:33:01 UTC

SUMMARY
Ark does not cut/copy selected file(s) to clipboard. Watch the attached screen recording please.

EXPECTED RESULT
cut and copy features should work

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.88.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Graphics Platform: X11

Comment 1 Patrick Silva 2021-11-03 12:34:52 UTC

Created attachment 143168 [details]
screen recording

Comment 2 Nicolas Fella 2021-11-03 13:48:44 UTC

It's, umh, complicated.

The copy/paste actions aren't using the system's clipboard, instead what they do is allow you to copy/paste files _within_ a writable archive. The fact that the copy button is enabled in a read-only archive doesn't help with this confusion either.

I assume that you want it to copy/paste between Ark and another application, which is a perfectly reasonable expectation. However this is surprisingly hard to implement properly. Same story with Drag and Drop (as can be seen in a recent video). For Drag and Drop we have a hack that makes it work between Ark and Dolphin. We probably could use that for Copy/Paste as well, but that wouldn't help with other applications. I'm planning to make a detailed writeup of the technicalities of this problem to start a conversation on how we can solve this

Comment 3 Lazar 2022-01-01 13:47:41 UTC

As a workaround, one can enable "Open archives as folder" under "Navigation" in the "Configure Dolphin" menu and then copy and pasting works