On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:54:04 -0800 (PST)
Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...> wrote:

> > I can reproduce the behaviour you described in KDE 3.5.10,
> > so it did exist at
> > some point but may now have been fixed (or not). 
> > However, I should probably
> > note that I get the "Extract" option replacing "Compress"
> > only if all the files I
> > select are recognized as being compressed--if I select,
> > say, two .zip files and a 
> > .txt, the "Compress" option remains available.
> 
> What you describe rang a bell. I tried a directory only with compressed files. 
>I still can't repeat the problem here with either 3.5.10 or R14_GIT. My head 
>hurts. :)

Mine is starting to do the same.  The obvious (but likely not helpful) question
is, what did you change?