[1una]

They admit

> Flatpak is currently a pretty poor technology for system-level apps that want deep integration with the base system.

Therefore they ship those apps on the base image, rather than as Flatpaks. I don’t see what’s wrong with this approach.

[vbezhenar]

KDE Ark is a graphical file compression/decompression utility. It's not system app and does not require deep integration with the base system. It's a bit strange choice of apps to include to system image.

[rollcat]

Which is odd. Windows was able to browse ZIPs like normal folders since... 98? XP? Can't remember now.

IMHO KDE delegates too much core functionality to apps. On macOS, I can press "space" while having a file selected and I get an instant preview. This sort of thing must not be delegated.

[const_cast]

Is this true? I was under the impression windows wasn't able to decompress zip files natively till very recently, like windows 11. I could be remembering wrong.

[IshKebab]

Yeah it's been supported since at least Windows 7. I think XP sounds about right.

[TiredOfLife]

Windows millenium was first to bundle.

The recent update to 11 added libarchive integration with bunch of formats

[bmicraft]

At the very least it does add context menu entries for compression to files, apart from "open with" obviously. That might already the reason right there.

[IshKebab]

So I can't install an app that adds context menu entries? I can do that on Windows.

[bmicraft]

Yeah obviously. Windows let's everybody and their dog write into the registry.

Which goes completely against the kind of immutable and sandboxed system that KDE Linux intends to be.

[efreak]

That likely depends on the desktop environment. I have packages installed on my steam deck that add context menu entries, so clearly it's not impossible (my system still remains read-only, though I've been thinking about using an overlay like rwfus to get some new native packages, due to annoyance of self-management of self-built and downloaded ~/.local stuff)