Re: extract tar file in konqueror

On Apr 4, 2005 11:26 PM, Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:
> My wife uses firefox and konqueror. She followed some links to get
> Macromedia Flash. It said to extract the download, but didn't tell he how
> to do it. Her file manager is konqueror. She is using kdebase-3.3.2.
>
> The konqueror allows you to browse the contents of a tar file. (It appears
> to make some psuedo directory.)
>
> What is the correct or easy way to add a choice to konqueror so when you
> click on a tar.gz (or .tar or .tar.bz2) file that it prompts you to choose
> to extract versus the pseudo-browsing?
>
> Also, it would be nice to have a right-click option said "Extract archive
> to same directory" or something like that. Any ideas on how to add that?
>
> It would be nice for her to use the KDE to extract instead of command-line
> tools.
>
> As for myself, I rarely use KDE or Konqueror.
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
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What Distro and version of KDE does she use? I am on Mandrake 10.1(KDE 3.3.2)
and Suse 9.2 (KDE 3.3.0) and the right-click, extract to... selection exists
on both.

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