Version: 2.15 (using KDE 4.6.2) OS: Linux It is not possible to drop an item dragged from Ark's window onto FolderView window (showing the desktop folder). There is a bug for that (189322) and it is marked as solved, but it does not work in KDE 4.6.2 (and Ark 2.16, but it was not on the list of available versions in kde's bug system). Reproducible: Always OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.38-ARCH Compiler: gcc
What happens when you try to drag a file from Ark to folderview? I've just tested it here with trunk and got the same results I described in comment 3 in bug 189322.
OK, I tested it and I got the behaviour you described, but only with zip files. Dealing with rar files still doesn't work. What's interesting is that drag&drop from rar files work with regular dolphin windows, but not the folderview. Dragging from zip files (I'm not sure what other formats, tried only zip and rar) works with both folderview and dolphin windows.
I have also tried some other formats, and it doesn't work with 7zip and tar+bzip2. It works with tar+gzip, but only if the file created has '.tar.gz' extension. When it's '.tgz' it doesn't work anymore. The uncompressed '.tar' works as well. Also, when I create the file with tar+bzip2, but with '.tar.gz' extension it works.
Indeed, I was able to reproduce the issue here. I'll mark this report as a duplicate and reopen the other one. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 189322 ***