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}//{$ARCHIVE_NAME}, which to silly. (Also notice the double slash.)
Just to be sure, I created a fresh profile and noticed the same behavior.
I can somewhat cheat by manually editing arkrc with the following:
[generic] extractionHistory[$e]=/some/directory1,/some/directory2
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.
This is classic paper cut territory and I'm bleeding. :-)
I would be grateful if somebody would confirm this wacky behavior before I write a bug report.
Darrell
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:00:40 -0700 (PDT) Darrell Anderson humanreadable@yahoo.com wrote:
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
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
Thank you for confirming. I'm always amazed at how much we humans tolerate crappy software and for how long. To add a little humor, this is classic WTF. :-) Of course, Trinity inherited these kinds of quirks. Eventually we get around to fixing them and for that I'm glad.
I'll write a bug report.
C++ experts:
* How much work to get Ark to remember the "Extract Files" dialog size? Or better, remember the last used size height and auto-resize the width as necessary to fit the text string in the drop-down list box?
* How much work to get Ark to use a standard kdialog, with the toolbar?
I'll try to give both of the above a whack if I'm provided some examples.
I'll presume the history in the "Extract Files" dialog "Destination folder" drop-down list box is broken and needs debugging.
Darrell
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