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.)
> (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?
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 ***