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twelveeighty

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Registered: 2011-09-04

Posts: 1,456

Xfce and Ark incorrect ark.tap file

I'm not sure if I'm missing something fundamental here, but the default /usr/lib/xfce4/thunar-archive-plugin/ark.tap file that installs with thunar-archive-plugin seems to be completely wrong. The options to launch ark to extract files from the command line are not recognized by Ark. There is no "--extract-to" and "--extract" command line options.

Does anyone know if those Ark options used to be there, but have changed?

I think that the extract-here and extract-to commands should be:

extract-here)
        exec ark --batch --destination "$folder" "$@"
        ;;

extract-to)
        exec ark --batch --dialog --destination "$folder" "$@"
        ;;
 

But, again, this seem a rather big difference with the current .tap file..? Am I missing something?

twelveeighty

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Registered: 2011-09-04

Posts: 1,456

Re: Xfce and Ark incorrect ark.tap file

To make the solution complete, I noticed that you must also create a symlink from the ark.tap file to kde4-ark.tap or otherwise you keep getting the "no supported archive manager" found.

I guess I'm the only poor soul who likes Ark as an archive manager in Xfce, because I found no such issue reported anywhere else, haha.