file-roller-kde-desktop-entry

Configuration files and scripts for adding "Extract here" and "Compress" desktop entries to KDE applications' context menus. file-roller and zip are used for extraction and compression, respectively.

Installation

1. Determine KDE services directories, e.g., with kde4-config --path services on KDE 4. For KDE 5, one of the directories is ~/.local/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus.

2. Create sub-directory "ServiceMenus" in one of KDE's services directories, e.g., in ~/.local/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus via mkdir ~/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus.

3. Copy the desktop files and Python scripts in this repository to the created ServiceMenus sub-directory.

4. Restart KDE applications, which now should contain two context menu entries, i.e., Extract here (for files with an archive MIME type) and Compress (for arbitrary files and directories).

Note that the create_zip Python script contained in this repository is used by the Compress entry to create a ZIP archive. The script creates a ZIP archive that contains all files and/or folders passed to it.

Tested with krusader 2.6.0 on Linux Mint 19.1 with file-roller 3.28 and zip 3.0.