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
Created attachment 143168 [details] screen recording
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
As a workaround, one can enable "Open archives as folder" under "Navigation" in the "Configure Dolphin" menu and then copy and pasting works