21 Jun
2012
21 Jun
'12
3:22 a.m.
I think the
Ark extraction dialog is broken.
Ark refuses to retain a kdialog size. The dialog always
opens too small for me to
read the file text box. I have to
manually resize every time. Rinse, repeat. Frustrating.
Ark does not use a full kdialog. There is no toolbar,
hence, no button with my
bookmarks.
Ark won't retain a dialog history. I have two working
directories to which I
routinely want to extract files. I
want those locations retained in the drop-down history. Each
time I open Ark the dialog defaults to $HOME/{$ARCHIVE_NAME}
with no history.
Sometimes Ark will default to extracting to
$HOME/{$PREVIOUS_ARCHIVE_NAME}//{$ARCHIVE_NAME}, which to
silly. (Also notice the double slash.)
Just to be sure, I created a fresh profile and noticed
the same behavior.
All of these behaviours exist for me in KDE3 (I seem to
vaguely remember that
the double-slash only pops up when it would need to create
the directory). I'm lucky
in that the one dialog is large enough for me to be able to
read most filenames.
I can somewhat cheat by manually editing arkrc
with the
following:
[generic]
extractionHistory[$e]=/some/directory1,/some/directory2
Never tried that--thanks for the tip.
I don't know why Ark doesn't
automatically create that
config key.
I seem to recall this working at one time in 3.5.10,
but I can't get this to
work there any more either.
Maybe it was 3.5.0-3.5.9? Or even 3.4.??
This is classic paper cut territory and I'm
bleeding.
:-)
You're not the only one. I can't even count the number
of occasions on which this
behaviour has driven me up a wall and down the other side.
;P