OK, here's the scenario. I need to compress five files, and I want to zip it instead of using the more efficient/useful formats out there because some of the people who need it are Windows users who will be relying on Windows default zip support instead of better tools like 7zip. That's just the way it is. No problem, right? Just right click on the files in dolphin, select Compress > As Zip archive and you're done.
Well... no, because I start getting reports from windows users that they can't open the file. A few of the more enterprising ones report that they *can* extract the file in Windows if they use a tool like 7zip, but not when they use Windows default compression tools. Another (who is both a Windows and Linux user) reports that it acts more like a tar file.
When I right-click on the zipped file in Kubuntu and select properties, I see this interesting information:
Type: zip archive
Contents: gzip archive
What the hell, KDE? It looks like it's gzipping the contents first, then zipping *that*. That would explain the problems some of the Windows users are having.
Has anyone ever encountered this before? Does anyone know if there's a way to configure dolphin or KDE or something to fix it? Because it's extremely frustrating.
(Currently using Kubuntu 14.10. Don't know if it was an issue in 14.04 or earlier).
Well... no, because I start getting reports from windows users that they can't open the file. A few of the more enterprising ones report that they *can* extract the file in Windows if they use a tool like 7zip, but not when they use Windows default compression tools. Another (who is both a Windows and Linux user) reports that it acts more like a tar file.
When I right-click on the zipped file in Kubuntu and select properties, I see this interesting information:
Type: zip archive
Contents: gzip archive
What the hell, KDE? It looks like it's gzipping the contents first, then zipping *that*. That would explain the problems some of the Windows users are having.
Has anyone ever encountered this before? Does anyone know if there's a way to configure dolphin or KDE or something to fix it? Because it's extremely frustrating.
(Currently using Kubuntu 14.10. Don't know if it was an issue in 14.04 or earlier).
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