KDE5 Dolphin file manager no compress option

victorsk · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jul 2010 Posts: 97

Good day everyone,

I am trying to find a way to add "archive" or "compress" functionality to my Dolphin file manger. I've got Dolphin 15.08.0 and KDE5. I've installed ark but in available services option in "Configure Dolphin" there is no "compression" available in Services list. So I looked for file compression/archive plugin in "Download new services" but none of the listed plugins seem to provide file archiving features. I don't mind archiving files manually, but it's a nice convenience feature to compress a directory straight within Dolphin's UI.

Does anybody know what must be done to add file archiving support in Dolphin?

Thank you kindly,
Victor.

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8935

These actions are part of libkonq, which unfortunately has not had a kf5-based release yet.

davidbrooke · Guru Joined: 03 Jan 2015 Posts: 341

Johan_V · n00b Joined: 11 Oct 2005 Posts: 56

Try copying konqpopupmenuplugin.desktop from libkonq-4.* to /usr/share/kservicetypes5/

lost+found · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 12:09 pm Post subject:

app-arch/p7zip with 'kde' USE flag integrates with Dolphin, but I haven't tried KDE5 though.

victorsk · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jul 2010 Posts: 97

Thank you for your replies. Tried two last suggestions above. When I issued:

lost+found · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 4:11 pm Post subject:

Maybe the same trick for p7zip works with the .desktop files in /usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/p7zip*

Johan_V · n00b Joined: 11 Oct 2005 Posts: 56

Have you tried adding services again in configure dolphin/services? For me, those configuration options started only having effect after copying the konqpopmenuplugin.desktop file.

victorsk · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jul 2010 Posts: 97

Hi everyone,

Unfortunately, I have now messed up my entire KDE5 installation resulting in wireless connection loss and panels misbehaving. This was the result of me not knowing what I was doing because I tried to copy more *.desktop files to /usr/share/kservicetypes5/ which resulted in KDE5 not working properly. What I did was install XFCE from wired connection and install nm-applet. Now I have XFCE instead

But at least it's working properly. I'll re-install KDE5 when I have time (I am at work now).

Thank you all for all your suggestions.

Thanks,
Victor.

ADDED: My installation of XFCE has led to installing Thunar file manger and I was able to add compress and extract options in Thunar instead

otakugeek · n00b Joined: 26 Jun 2014 Posts: 50