| Summary: | Mention resulting filename when doing "compress here" for multiple files | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] ark | Reporter: | Nishith Khanna <nishith.khanna> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Elvis Angelaccio <elvis.angelaccio> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | aacid, nate, qydwhotmail, rthomsen6 |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | usability |
| Version: | 21.08.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Arch Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | https://invent.kde.org/utilities/ark/commit/483804dbbfb0848ecd51fe7ed7f450d97823de86 | Version Fixed In: | 22.04 |
| Attachments: | Current implementation doesn't mention what the archive filename will be | ||
When compressing a single file, the resulting archive is "<original filename>.<archive extension>" which i think is fairly logical. But for the multi file case, the resulting archive is "Archive.<archive extension>". I think the issue is not so much that it doesn't tell you what the destination filename will be, but rather that it doesn't give you the chance to change it. So you don't A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/utilities/ark/-/merge_requests/82 Git commit 483804dbbfb0848ecd51fe7ed7f450d97823de86 by Fushan Wen. Committed on 04/02/2022 at 15:28. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. app/compressfileitemaction: Show archive name in menu actions The user may be confused by the auto naming rule, so add the archive name to menu actions, just like 7-zip does. M +24 -10 app/compressfileitemaction.cpp M +1 -1 kerfuffle/addtoarchive.cpp https://invent.kde.org/utilities/ark/commit/483804dbbfb0848ecd51fe7ed7f450d97823de86 Git commit 77606102773a9f5b4ce20ed441e54dfbf5b589a5 by Fushan Wen. Committed on 04/02/2022 at 15:28. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. kerfuffle/addtoarchive: Add getFileName() The static function allows generating the archive name from a list of QUrls. M +24 -4 kerfuffle/addtoarchive.cpp M +4 -0 kerfuffle/addtoarchive.h https://invent.kde.org/utilities/ark/commit/77606102773a9f5b4ce20ed441e54dfbf5b589a5 A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/utilities/ark/-/merge_requests/96 Git commit f3719d9649822dfe47c39b4d9db00a067ce87852 by Méven Car, on behalf of Nate Graham. Committed on 08/02/2022 at 21:20. Pushed by meven into branch 'ngraham/ark-use-simpler-multi-file-archive-name'. Use a better and simpler default name for multi-file archives Now the default name of a multi-file archive created from the file actions plugin (i.e. from Dolphin's context menu) will be "Archive.[extension]", not "[name of parent folder].[extension]". That was a weird default filename choice. This partially reverts 77606102773a9f5b4ce20ed441e54dfbf5b589a5, which added a function that is no longer needed; that function has been removed. M +3 -10 app/compressfileitemaction.cpp M +1 -12 kerfuffle/addtoarchive.cpp M +0 -2 kerfuffle/addtoarchive.h https://invent.kde.org/utilities/ark/commit/f3719d9649822dfe47c39b4d9db00a067ce87852 A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/utilities/ark/-/merge_requests/98 Git commit 3e3a0a5dfaf3e504f6b3dfb2a40977651e4a8110 by Méven Car, on behalf of Nate Graham. Committed on 12/02/2022 at 14:40. Pushed by meven into branch 'ngraham/ark-use-simpler-multi-file-archive-name'. Use a better and simpler default name for multi-file archives Now the default name of a multi-file archive created from the file actions plugin (i.e. from Dolphin's context menu) will be "Archive.[extension]", not "[name of parent folder].[extension]". That was a weird default filename choice. This partially reverts 77606102773a9f5b4ce20ed441e54dfbf5b589a5, which added a function that is no longer needed; that function has been removed. M +3 -10 app/compressfileitemaction.cpp M +1 -12 kerfuffle/addtoarchive.cpp M +0 -2 kerfuffle/addtoarchive.h https://invent.kde.org/utilities/ark/commit/3e3a0a5dfaf3e504f6b3dfb2a40977651e4a8110 A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/utilities/ark/-/merge_requests/101 Git commit 88611c6ffe85f6f9a076bae9091466ba872edd43 by Méven Car. Committed on 26/02/2022 at 12:11. Pushed by meven into branch 'master'. Use a better and simpler default name for multi-file archives Now the default name of a multi-file archive created from the file actions plugin is the common prefix of those file's filename or "Archive.\[extension\]", if they don't match, instead of "\[name of parent folder\].\[extension\]". aka: "Screenshot_123.jpg", "Screenshot_1234.jpg" => "Screenshot_123.\[extension\]" "cats.jpg", "dogs.jpg" => "Archive.\[extension\]" M +13 -15 app/compressfileitemaction.cpp M +1 -1 app/compressfileitemaction.h M +18 -32 autotests/kerfuffle/addtoarchivetest.cpp M +57 -47 kerfuffle/addtoarchive.cpp M +2 -5 kerfuffle/addtoarchive.h https://invent.kde.org/utilities/ark/commit/88611c6ffe85f6f9a076bae9091466ba872edd43 |
Created attachment 144390 [details] Current implementation doesn't mention what the archive filename will be When doing compress here via dolphin it doesn't mention what will be the filename of the archive when the compression is done. Maybe to fix that it can say Here (as name.TAR.GZ) and Here (as name.zip). So that the user can know what will be the name of the archive when the process is finished. As currently when compressing multiple files/folders it takes the name of parent folder as the filename. So to make that clear maybe that name can be added in the context menu itself. Other workaround can be adding a dialog when clicking on compress here, user can enter any name of their choice. The idea behind this request is to make the archive filename clearer to user so he/she can find it easily. Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.88.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.15.6-arch2-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6200U CPU @ 2.30GHz Memory: 11.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 520