KDE Utils/Ark

Ark TODO

Harald currently working on

• Formalize the dbus communication protocol and implement it in dolphin
• Clean up the command line parameters (better names, descriptions)
  • Find a solution to the current directory problem with service menus
• Batch extract does not use the extract dialog information yet
• The extract dialog needs to be able to settable to batch extract mode
• Find somewhere in svn to stick the service menu

Things not started yet

• The Ark KPart needs a way set password for protected archives
• The current state of creating archives/adding files needs to be checked (So far only extracting has been worked on)
• Figure out what menu elements we want for the service menu.

Some use cases for commandline options

• Extracting a single file into the current directory, automatically creating a subfolder

ark --batch --autosubfolder lala.tar.gz

• Same, with a dialog

ark --batch --autosubfolder --dialog lala.tar.gz

• Extract lots of archives into a single directory

ark --batch --destination /tmp lala1.zip lala2.tar lala3.rar

• Same, but use a subfolder

ark --batch --destination /tmp --subfolder mystuff lala1.zip lala2.tar lala3.rar

• Extract lots of archives into separate directories

ark --batch --destination /tmp --autosubfolder lala1.zip lala2.tar lala3.rar

• Into a single subfolder

ark --batch --subfolder lala.tar.gz