Ark - 4.14.1 Unar/Unrar

[Colin J Thomson]

On Mon 22 September 2014 19:10:00 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Colin J Thomson wrote:
> > I stumbled across this small issue today when opening a rar file directly
> > from say Dolphin Ark would fail with an error. Using Unrar from a shell
> > the file would unpack fine.
> > 
> > Looking at the Ark-4.14 changelog I see support for Unar had been added
> > which I did not have installed. Since installing Unar all is good now.
> 
> Now this is weird, because the patch which adds unar support does not remove
> unrar support. IMHO, Ark should detect that unar is not installed and fall
> back to the lower-priority unrar if you have that. I think this issue (lack
> of automatic fallback to lower-priority backends) should be taken upstream.

I'll have a snoop on kde.bugs if I get time as I think I saw something 
regarding unar,

> What you can do if you want to use unrar is change the priorities in the
> kerfuffle_*.desktop files.

Thanks for the info, I'll stick to using only unar now.

> That said, we recommend using unar because it is Free Software, unlike
> unrar.

Indeed! I'm all for getting rid of the "non-free" packages on this box, this 
may of been the last one :)

Colin
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