Comments for Harald's hacks http://metelliuscode.wordpress.com Cries of help from yet another KDE coder (metellius@freenode) Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:04:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Drag’n'drop menus/Ark “extract here” popup menu by Max http://metelliuscode.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/dragndrop-menusark-extract-here-popup-menu/#comment-422 Max Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:04:41 +0000 http://metelliuscode.wordpress.com/?p=82#comment-422 I just googled "drag drop extract" because I thought it would be neat to have exactly this functionality in KDE and wondered if there was anything out there providing it. Then I found this post, nice. So will this get in with KDE 4.4 or when? I just googled “drag drop extract” because I thought it would be neat to have exactly this functionality in KDE and wondered if there was anything out there providing it. Then I found this post, nice. So will this get in with KDE 4.4 or when?

]]> Comment on Tip of the day: Quickly extract archive from command-line using Ark by Ryan http://metelliuscode.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/tip-of-the-day-quickly-extract-archive-from-command-line-using-ark/#comment-420 Ryan Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:03:45 +0000 http://metelliuscode.wordpress.com/?p=99#comment-420 Does this mean that ark can replace atool? Does this mean that ark can replace atool?

]]> Comment on Tip of the day: Quickly extract archive from command-line using Ark by Rasi http://metelliuscode.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/tip-of-the-day-quickly-extract-archive-from-command-line-using-ark/#comment-419 Rasi Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:36:49 +0000 http://metelliuscode.wordpress.com/?p=99#comment-419 Oripi Says: August 28, 2009 at 10:09 am | Reply This is awesome ! I never remember which are the tar options to extract .tar.bz2 or .tar.gz. its the same for tar.bz2 and tar.gz: simply remember tar xvf. This will autodetect the compression mode. Oripi Says:
August 28, 2009 at 10:09 am | Reply

This is awesome ! I never remember which are the tar options to extract .tar.bz2 or .tar.gz.

its the same for tar.bz2 and tar.gz: simply remember tar xvf.
This will autodetect the compression mode.

]]> Comment on Tip of the day: Quickly extract archive from command-line using Ark by Parker http://metelliuscode.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/tip-of-the-day-quickly-extract-archive-from-command-line-using-ark/#comment-418 Parker Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:48:40 +0000 http://metelliuscode.wordpress.com/?p=99#comment-418 Very convenient. Very convenient.

]]> Comment on Tip of the day: Quickly extract archive from command-line using Ark by Luboš Luňák http://metelliuscode.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/tip-of-the-day-quickly-extract-archive-from-command-line-using-ark/#comment-417 Luboš Luňák Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:48:08 +0000 http://metelliuscode.wordpress.com/?p=99#comment-417 Actually the tar command to extact something is always just 'tar xf [archive]', so this is not simpler, but Ark can also handle other less-common archive types. Actually the tar command to extact something is always just ‘tar xf [archive]‘, so this is not simpler, but Ark can also handle other less-common archive types.

]]> Comment on Tip of the day: Quickly extract archive from command-line using Ark by arwa http://metelliuscode.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/tip-of-the-day-quickly-extract-archive-from-command-line-using-ark/#comment-416 arwa Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:10:33 +0000 http://metelliuscode.wordpress.com/?p=99#comment-416 Nice to handle different formats with the same tool. But -a does not create any directory here, even if the archive content contains many files in differen folders, that are not in the same top subfolder?! Nice to handle different formats with the same tool.

But -a does not create any directory here, even if the archive content contains many files in differen folders, that are not in the same top subfolder?!

]]> Comment on Tip of the day: Quickly extract archive from command-line using Ark by Jucato http://metelliuscode.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/tip-of-the-day-quickly-extract-archive-from-command-line-using-ark/#comment-415 Jucato Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:56:54 +0000 http://metelliuscode.wordpress.com/?p=99#comment-415 Cool! Thanks for sharing this. Now I don't need to write my little script to automatically identify and extract archives with the proper options. :) Cool! Thanks for sharing this. Now I don’t need to write my little script to automatically identify and extract archives with the proper options. :)

]]> Comment on Tip of the day: Quickly extract archive from command-line using Ark by Oripi http://metelliuscode.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/tip-of-the-day-quickly-extract-archive-from-command-line-using-ark/#comment-414 Oripi Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:09:27 +0000 http://metelliuscode.wordpress.com/?p=99#comment-414 This is awesome ! I never remember which are the tar options to extract .tar.bz2 or .tar.gz. This is awesome ! I never remember which are the tar options to extract .tar.bz2 or .tar.gz.

]]> Comment on The FOSS cross-platform camp and the other people by Phil Urich http://metelliuscode.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/the-foss-cross-platform-camp-and-the-other-people/#comment-411 Phil Urich Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:18:08 +0000 http://metelliuscode.wordpress.com/?p=97#comment-411 The reason to be cross-platform is so that people, especially the more average users, don't have to suffer as much of a climate shock when they inevitably make the jump to the right platform ;) Actually I kindof mean that seriously; I have a friend who's a Windows user but quite addicted to the games in KDE and starting to use DigiKam. If users can get used to KDE and other cross-platform apps, then to them there won't be much of a barrier to switching to Linux (except maybe the weirdness that comes with more speed and stability, heh). The reason to be cross-platform is so that people, especially the more average users, don’t have to suffer as much of a climate shock when they inevitably make the jump to the right platform ;)

Actually I kindof mean that seriously; I have a friend who’s a Windows user but quite addicted to the games in KDE and starting to use DigiKam. If users can get used to KDE and other cross-platform apps, then to them there won’t be much of a barrier to switching to Linux (except maybe the weirdness that comes with more speed and stability, heh).

]]> Comment on The FOSS cross-platform camp and the other people by Anon http://metelliuscode.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/the-foss-cross-platform-camp-and-the-other-people/#comment-408 Anon Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:14:22 +0000 http://metelliuscode.wordpress.com/?p=97#comment-408 The size has to be related to the executable being statically linked. It seems to me that under Windows most Qt applications are statically linked (Qt libraries compiled into the executable itself) instead dynamically linked. The fact that there's still no standardized way to spread the Qt "runtime" (i.e. standardized location for all Qt libraries/versions which could then be independently redistributed a la VC/VB/.NET runtimes) of course doesn't help the matter. The size has to be related to the executable being statically linked. It seems to me that under Windows most Qt applications are statically linked (Qt libraries compiled into the executable itself) instead dynamically linked. The fact that there’s still no standardized way to spread the Qt “runtime” (i.e. standardized location for all Qt libraries/versions which could then be independently redistributed a la VC/VB/.NET runtimes) of course doesn’t help the matter.

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