kde4 ark question

[pkaplan1 at comcast.net]

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From: "Anne Wilson" <cannewilson at googlemail.com> 
To: kde at mail.kde.org 
Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2009 3:50:03 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [kde] kde4 ark question 

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 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anne Wilson" > To: kde at mail.kde.org > Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2009 2:45:13 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [kde] kde4 ark question > > 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 > ___________________________________________________ This message is from > the kde mailing list. Account management: > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > > Bottom post > > 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. > > 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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Do you still have kde3libs installed? 
Paul 
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