<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div>I have a question regarding the development status of Ark</div><div><br>I'm a KDE user and I've added to CC list two bugs regarding ark.<div><a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208384">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208384</a><br>
</div><div><a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187152">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187152</a><br></div><div>These bugs are not critical for the app per se, but they're really horrible from the user's perspective because they make the app hardly usable.</div>
<div>The best way to use this app is to right-click on the archive -> Extract here, autoreveal folder</div><div>The app's Main Window is nearly useless</div><div><br>Ark should be treated as a core app for KDE since is the default archive manager and because alternatives (which works better like GNOME's File Roller) aren't well integrated into the "K Desktop" or they are very primitive...</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>For <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187152">Bug 187152 - multiple selection undone when dragging files</a><font color="#0b5394"> </font>(reported <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(46,52,54);line-height:22.390625px"><b>2009-03-14</b> 16:30 UTC by </span><span class="" style="color:rgb(46,52,54);line-height:22.390625px"><span class="" style="color:rgb(0,104,198);text-decoration:none"><a class="" href="mailto:sven.burmeister@gmx.net" title="S. Burmeister <sven.burmeister@gmx.net>" style="color:rgb(0,104,198);text-decoration:none">S. Burmeister</a></span></span>) there is even a proposed solution in the attachments uploaded february 2013, but anyway nothing has yet been done...</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">For <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208384">Bug 208384 - Extracting selected files will always create the whole directory structure</a> (reported </font><span style="color:rgb(46,52,54);font-family:'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:22.390625px"><b>2009-09-24</b> 14:02 UTC by </span><span class="" style="color:rgb(46,52,54);font-family:'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:22.390625px"><span class="" style="color:rgb(0,104,198);text-decoration:none"><a class="" href="mailto:vdboor@codingdomain.com" title="Diederik van der Boor <vdboor@codingdomain.com>" style="color:rgb(0,104,198);text-decoration:none">Diederik van der Boor</a></span></span>) there is a <a href="https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110516/">patch submitted to the review board</a> but it was rejected becuase of a little problem that is surely easily solvable<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">...</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It seems like the development of Ark is nearly on hold since there are 16 major bugs and 27 minor bugs (some reported in 2010) that are still in the UNCONFIRMED status...</font></div>
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