kde4 ark question

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 04 February 2009 19:59:57 pkaplan1 at comcast.net wrote:
> Top post
>
> Half complain about this.
>
> I get zip files at work that contain multiple MS office files. Under prior
> arks (as long as kde3 libs were installed), double clicking the compressed
> file launched the application directly. Under the kde4 version, there's an
> error message that the viewer won't work, so the file has to be
> decompressed and saved to disk before it can be viewed. Shouldn't kde be
> smart enough to figure out (or at least ask) which application should be
> used to open the file? Paul
>
>
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> From: "Anne Wilson" <cannewilson at googlemail.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2009 2:45:13 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [kde] kde4 ark question
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> On Wednesday 04 February 2009 18:49:46 pkaplan1 at comcast.net wrote: > I
> would add that prior versions allowed opening *.doc, *.xls, and *.ppt >
> files using either OpenOffice.org or Codeweavers/wine/native app depending
> > on the file association settings for KDE. Now I can't open anything
> without > first extracting to disk. Paul > Please don't top-post. Ark is an
> archive manager. Why would you try to open a M$ Office file with it? There
> are plenty of file viewers. Anne
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> Bottom post
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> Half complain about this
>
If you can't be bothered to respect the list guidelines, I won't be bothered 
to reply to you after this.
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> I get zip files at work that contain multiple MS office files. Under prior
> arks (as long as kde3 libs were installed), double clicking the compressed
> file launched the application directly. Under the kde4 version, there's an
> error message that the viewer won't work, so the file has to be
> decompressed and saved to disk before it can be viewed. Shouldn't kde be
> smart enough to figure out (or at least ask) which application should be
> used to open the file? Paul

I have no zip file of M$ documents, so I can't test that.  However, the couple 
of test files, .jar and .war, that I tried did behave as expected.  Double-
clicking on a file within the archive did open it in the appropriate 
application.

Anne
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