> > I think the Ark extraction dialog is broken. > > > > Ark refuses to retain a kdialog size. The dialog always > opens too small for me to read the file text box. I have to > manually resize every time. Rinse, repeat. Frustrating. > > > > Ark does not use a full kdialog. There is no toolbar, > hence, no button with my bookmarks. > > > > Ark won't retain a dialog history. I have two working > directories to which I routinely want to extract files. I > want those locations retained in the drop-down history. Each > time I open Ark the dialog defaults to $HOME/{$ARCHIVE_NAME} > with no history. > > > > Sometimes Ark will default to extracting to > $HOME/{$PREVIOUS_ARCHIVE_NAME}//{$ARCHIVE_NAME}, which to > silly. (Also notice the double slash.) > > > > Just to be sure, I created a fresh profile and noticed > the same behavior. > > All of these behaviours exist for me in KDE3 (I seem to > vaguely remember that > the double-slash only pops up when it would need to create > the directory). I'm lucky > in that the one dialog is large enough for me to be able to > read most filenames. > > > I can somewhat cheat by manually editing arkrc with the > following: > > > > [generic] > > > extractionHistory[$e]=/some/directory1,/some/directory2 > > Never tried that--thanks for the tip. > > > I don't know why Ark doesn't automatically create that > config key. > > > > I seem to recall this working at one time in 3.5.10, > but I can't get this to work there any more either. > > Maybe it was 3.5.0-3.5.9? Or even 3.4.?? > > > This is classic paper cut territory and I'm bleeding. > :-) > > You're not the only one. I can't even count the number > of occasions on which this > behaviour has driven me up a wall and down the other side. > ;P Thank you for confirming. I'm always amazed at how much we humans tolerate crappy software and for how long. To add a little humor, this is classic WTF. :-) Of course, Trinity inherited these kinds of quirks. Eventually we get around to fixing them and for that I'm glad. I'll write a bug report. C++ experts: * How much work to get Ark to remember the "Extract Files" dialog size? Or better, remember the last used size height and auto-resize the width as necessary to fit the text string in the drop-down list box? * How much work to get Ark to use a standard kdialog, with the toolbar? I'll try to give both of the above a whack if I'm provided some examples. I'll presume the history in the "Extract Files" dialog "Destination folder" drop-down list box is broken and needs debugging. Darrell