Bug 493590

Summary:	Ark should not block the preview of big files
Product:	[Applications] ark	Reporter:	Jan Bidler <janbidler00>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Elvis Angelaccio <elvis.angelaccio>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	rthomsen6
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	24.08.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Jan Bidler 2024-09-24 14:37:59 UTC

SUMMARY
If I have a tar.gz file inside of a zip file, ark is (sometimes!) unable to open that directly. I have to first extract the tarball and then open that extracted one in a new ark instance.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. I'm unsure how to create a file locally that makes ark act like this. I've been managing to get it with Randovania's CI artifacts ( https://github.com/randovania/randovania/actions/workflows/build-test-publish.yml , you can use nightly.link to not have the requirement of a github account: https://nightly.link/randovania/randovania/workflows/build-test-publish/main?preview )
2. Open the downloaded zip in ark
3. Try to open the included tarball via double clicking

OBSERVED RESULT
Nothing happens. The right click options for preview/open in/open in external application are grayed out

EXPECTED RESULT
Double clicking should open a new ark window previewing the contents of the tarball. The right click options shouldn't be grayed out.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.6.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.10.10-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor
Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 570 Series

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Elvis Angelaccio 2024-09-24 20:49:02 UTC

This is happening because those tarballs are quite huge.

Ark by default doesn't allow to preview a file bigger than 200 MB. This limit can be configured in the ark settings dialog.

I'll leave this this report open because we can probably implement a better UX these days. This "feature" was originally implemented to prevent the UI from freezing when previewing a huge file (see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139389), but this has since been fixed and the UI doesn't freeze anymore.

Still, it might make sense to ask a confirmation before starting an extraction that might take a while.

Comment 2 Jan Bidler 2024-09-25 14:49:55 UTC

There being no in-app hint of it being controllable in the settings is really unintuitive. A prompt that mentions it is a setting when attempting to preview or repurposing the setting to be "warn when opening previews bigger than X" would be nicer IMO.