How to change 'Compress As' default in Konqueror servicemenu?

Caesar Tjalbo · 03-27-2008, 08:56 AM

This has bugged me in different KDE versions across different distro's. I have Ark installed and tools (kdeaddons) to integrate it with Konqueror.

What I do:
- select a file in Konqueror,
- right-click, the service menu opens,
- select option 'Compress',
- a submenu opens with several options, including 'Compress as xxxx.tar.gz' where xxxx is the filename.

Screenshot:
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/5...pressasfy0.png

I'm using zip almost exclusively and in the 'Compress As' sub-sub-menu (the option below 'Compress as xxxx.tar.gz'), I find it together with compress as bzip2, tar.bz2, etc. However, I'd like the first option in the 'Compress' servicemenu to be 'Compress as xxxx.zip' in stead of 'Compress as xxxx.tar.gz'.

Does anyone know how/ where to change that?

kilgoretrout · 03-27-2008, 10:38 AM

Here's an article that discusses kde service menu configuration:

http://developer.kde.org/documentati...vicemenus.html

Basically, you need to edit the relevant text configuration file to change the service menus in konqueror; there's no gui way to do that AFAIK. These configuration files are all in the form of "*.desktop" and can be located in various places depending on how your distro sets up kde. Apart from mastering the syntax of .desktop files, the biggest challenge is finding the right .desktop file you need to edit.

Caesar Tjalbo · 03-27-2008, 06:13 PM

Thank you for your answer.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kilgoretrout

Here's an article that discusses kde service menu configuration:

http://developer.kde.org/documentati...vicemenus.html

Basically, you need to edit the relevant text configuration file to change the service menus in konqueror; there's no gui way to do that AFAIK. These configuration files are all in the form of "*.desktop" and can be located in various places depending on how your distro sets up kde. Apart from mastering the syntax of .desktop files, the biggest challenge is finding the right .desktop file you need to edit.

I knew the article by Aaron Seigo and .desktop files were the first I looked at. Finding the right one was a problem indeed. My distro (sidux) has directories called "servicemenus" so it could have been simple. I also looked at rc files in various .kde locations and at .protocol files for clues. No luck but given the amount of files and the sometimes cryptic filenames, I consider it very possible that I've overlooked the correct one.

My question was posted in the hope someone could point me to an easy solution. I'd taken a half-hearted look at some Ark source files too just in case I could find the root of this issue there. Earlier this evening I combined what I knew from looking at text files and downloaded the KDE source. Unfortunately, my C++ knowledge is quite useless but this is what I found:

/kdeaddons-3.5.9/konq-plugins/arkplugin/arkplugin.cpp, lines 94 - 110

Code:

        compMimeTypes();
        actionMenu = new KActionMenu( i18n( "Compress" ), "ark", actionCollection(), "ark_compress_menu"  );
        m_ext = m_conf->readEntry( "LastExtension", ".tar.gz" );
        if ( itemCount == 1 )
        {
            item = itemList.first();
            m_name = itemList.first()->name();
            action = new KAction( i18n( "Compress as %1" ).arg( m_name + m_ext ), 0, this,
                                    SLOT( slotCompressAsDefault() ), actionCollection() );
        }
        else
        {
            action = new KAction( KMimeType::mimeType( m_conf->readEntry(
                                    "LastMimeType", "application/x-tgz" ) )->comment(),
                                    0, this, SLOT( slotCompressAsDefault() ), actionCollection() );
        }
        actionMenu->insert( action );

and sure enough, I have a ~/.kde/share/config/arkrc file with an entry called LastExtension:

Code:

[ArkPlugin]
LastExtension=.zip
LastMimeType=application/x-zip

So my guess is there's something not working right but I can't say for sure.