[Bug 35995] Re: kio_tar and kio_zip not used automatically

[Anthony Mercatante]

This has been a long debate during the kubuntu-meetings...

Here are the reasons we removed that functionality :
- kio slaves are responsible for lots of issues with non kde applications.
A user opening a zip file containing odt files or images he want to edit with gimp will get an error message while application launches. Regarding to new users, that will appear as a non clean job.
- there are several kind of compressed files : rar, 7z, bz/bz2... We wanted to have an homogenous integration for all of them, and ark was the solution to this, as there are no kio-slaves for most of them.

One of the main goals of the dapper release of kubuntu was a clean and logic desktop implementation, and that way to manage compressed files is a consequence of this.

In the other way, I perfectly agree with the fact that it is not easilly possible to reactivate those 2 kio-slaves, and this is an issue.

It has to be possible graphically, without playing kubuntu-default-settings files in the shell, and the method has to be documented.

I'll have a look at this toonight to find the best way to correct this

** Changed in: kdebase kdebase-kio-plugins (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => In Progress

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kio_tar and kio_zip not used automatically
https://launchpad.net/bugs/35995