Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and right click menu or context menu. Missing options.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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Michael wrote:
> On Saturday, 17 August 2024 20:09:00 BST Dale wrote:
>
>> This is the USE settings for mine here.  Looks the same except I enabled
>> rar which should only help the situation. 
>>
>>
>> root@Gentoo-1 / # equery u app-arch/p7zip
>> [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation]
>> [        : I - package is installed with flag     ]
>> [ Colors : set, unset                             ]
>>  * Found these USE flags for app-arch/p7zip-16.02-r8:
>>  U I
>>  + + kde       : Add support for software made by KDE, a free software
>> community
>>  + + rar       : Enable support for non-free rar decoder
>>  + + wxwidgets : Add support for wxWidgets/wxGTK GUI toolkit
>> root@Gentoo-1 / #
> >From some quick tests I ran I can see 7-Zip does not need USE="rar" to be able 
> to decompress RAR archives via 7-Zip.
>
> If you emerge unrar or rar packages, then ark is capable of opening these 
> archives when you click on them.  Otherwise you'll get this error from ark:
>
> "No suitable plugin found. Ark does not seem to support this file type."
>
>
>> In the Context Menu settings, I've enabled everything that even looks
>> like a extraction tool.  It mostly refers to 7z.  If I right click on
>> the rar file, there is no Actions option at all.
> I don't know why you're not getting an Actions submenu.  I have Actions 
> showing up in Dolphin whenever I right-click on a file, or directory.  :-/
>
> However, I've observed the following conditional behaviour which may explain 
> why your Extract submenu does not show up.
>
> I use the 'Details' view mode in Dolphin, presenting files in a list with 
> columns showing Name, Size, Modified, Permissions, etc.
>
> When I right-click with the mouse placed carefully on an archive's name not 
> previously selected (i.e. not highlighted) the Extract submenu shows up, just 
> as expected.
>
> However, when I do the same with the mouse placed on any other columns or 
> indeed on anywhere else than the name itself of the archive file, then the 
> Extract submenu is nowhere to be found.
>
> I suspect with the mouse hovering over the file name, the .rar file extension 
> is identified by Dolphin and the corresponding file type relevant Extract 
> submenu is loaded.
>
> [Snip ...]

I see no difference here.  It doesn't show up either way. 

>> I might add tho, I also can't find those tools in the KDE app menu. 
>> When I search for 7, no results.  Same for the litter z except for Zulu
>> encryption stuff.  It's like emerge says they installed but KDE doesn't
>> see them, or something. 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "KDE app menu".  Do you mean the K menu search 
> field?
>
> When I type "7" in the K menu search field it does no find anything to load, 
> but if I type "7z" it lists "Run 7z".  When I type "zip", it lists "Run zip", 
> as well as files containing "zip" in the file name or their file extension. 
>

What I'm talking about is the thing in the bottom left, by default, that
you click to open apps, shutdown, reboot, logout and all that stuff. 
When I put my mouse on it, it pops up saying Application Menu.  Given
that the apps don't show up there, it seems KDE isn't seeing them as
installed for some reason.  If it isn't seeing them as installed, well,
it won't associate a file with them.  I listed all the installed package
in category app-arch and emerged them again, just in case some change
emerge didn't catch would be corrected by emerging again.  Still, not
showing up in App Menu either.  I think something is amiss here.  May be
a missing .desktop file thing. 


>> P. S.  My main monitor has been winking at me.  Every once in a while it
>> would blink off and back on again.  It would show up as if the computer
>> had just powered up.  It would show the connection and such for a few
>> seconds.  Sort of like it does if I disconnect it and reconnect it
>> pretty quick.  I got some new cables that go from mini display port to
>> display port.  Each 10' long so I'm not pulling on them when I pull the
>> rig out to take off the side.  A while ago, it cut off, stayed off and
>> wouldn't come back on.  It threw a wrench into my whole display setup
>> given it was the main monitor that went dead.  While it was off anyway,
>> I switched the cables to the new ones.  So far, it hasn't winked at me a
>> single time.  I suspect it is either the cable or the little adapter
>> that goes from mini display port to HDMI.  I swapped the adapter once
>> and the problem remained.  I'm thinking cable.
> I avoid using intermediate adapters wherever I can.  I prefer to buy cables 
> with the same connector type as the port they are meant to fit in.  Additional 
> electrical contacts between cable and port introduce another interface with 
> the possibility of wear, tear, oxidisation, electrical resistance and 
> eventually failure.  So, if your hardware has a mini display port and you're 
> buying a new cable, it makes sense to buy it with a mini display port 
> connector on one end of it and on the other end to come with a connector to 
> suit the hardware port you intend to plug it into.
>
>

Well, I bought my first mini DP video card and had a box full of HDMI
cables.  So, I was going from mini DP to HDMI.  The new monitors have
the larger DP plug and HDMI.  I bought a mini DP to DP cable and used
it.  Since me and Ebay has kinda parted ways for most things, I found a
good deal on Amazon for a pack of them.  I might add, it is still
working.  I haven't seen a single wink yet.  Unless it does it when I'm
not around.  Usually tho, I see it if I sit here for a little while,
like typing a email or something.  ;-)  This keyboard is still causing
me grief.  I have to proof several times and also get a lot of red
squiggles.  Keys are actually the same size but it feels totally
different.  I miss my old PS/2 Dell QuietKey. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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