This has been a long debate during the kubuntu-meetings...
Here are the reasons we removed that functionality :
- kio slaves are responsible for lots of issues with non kde applications.
A user opening a zip file containing odt files or images he want to edit with
gimp will get an error message while application launches. Regarding to new
users, that will appear as a non clean job.
- there are several kind of compressed files : rar, 7z, bz/bz2... We wanted to
have an homogenous integration for all of them, and ark was the solution to
this, as there are no kio-slaves for most of them.
One of the main goals of the dapper release of kubuntu was a clean and logic
desktop implementation, and that way to manage compressed files is a
consequence of this.
In the other way, I perfectly agree with the fact that it is not easilly
possible to reactivate those 2 kio-slaves, and this is an issue.
It has to be possible graphically, without playing kubuntu-default-settings
files in the shell, and the method has to be documented.
I'll have a look at this toonight to find the best way to correct this
** Changed in: kdebase kdebase-kio-plugins (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => In Progress
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kio_tar and kio_zip not used automatically
https://launchpad.net/bugs/35995
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