On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 2:25 AM, Timothy Pearson < kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net> wrote:
In Konqueror, open a directory
containing several compressed files.
Select all of the files.
Open the popup context menu (right-click).
There is no option to compress those files into a new
archive.
Bug or misconfiguration?
Sounds like a "feature" to prevent recompression of compressed files, which almost always inflates the resultant archive to a larger size than if it was compressed once.
Any thoughts from others on this list?
About where in the code would I try to study this? The "Compress" menu option does not appear at all. Only the Extract option. Kind of weird I never ran into this before.
I needed to create single archives of my Slackware 3.5.13 packages for easier downloading. I selected the files in Konqueror and then did the proverbial deer in the headlights act. I just stared. :)
I had to archive the files manually in konsole. Doable for me, but not
for
many people. That's why I'm asking whether this is a bug or configuration problem. To me, there is no reason why a person can't archive a set of archived files.
Darrell
Correct. This sounds like a bug.
The issue is probably in the konqueror service menu handling/mimetype code in tdeutils or tdebase--I suspect that when compressed files are detected the service menu providing "Extract" overrides the default service menu that provides the "Compress" options.
Has a bug report been filed? If a bug, then it could at least show an option not to compress but to simple mesh together in a TAR file.
Best regards, Tiago
Tim
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