Ark

Short description: Archiving tool for KDE desktop environment

Ark

Screenshot of Ark 21.12.0

Developer(s)| Rob Palmbos, Francois-Xavier Duranceau, Emily Ezust, Roberto Selbach Teixeira, Helio Castro, Georg Robbers, Henrique Pinto, Harald Hvaal, Raphael Kubo da Costa
Initial release| 1997 (as kzip)[1]
Written in| C++ (Qt)
Type| File archiver
License| GPL-2.0-or-later
Website| apps.kde.org/en/ark

Ark is a file archiver and compressor developed by KDE and included in the KDE Applications software bundle. It supports various common archive and compression formats including zip, 7z, rar, lha and tar (both uncompressed and compressed with e.g. gzip, bzip2, lzip or xz).

## Contents

* 1 Features
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Features

* Ark uses libarchive and karchive to support tar-based archives, and is also a frontend for several command-line archivers.
* Ark can be integrated into Konqueror, through KParts technology. After installing it, files can be added or extracted in/from the archives using Konqueror's context menus.
* Support for editing files in archive with external programs. Files can also be deleted from the archive.
* Archive creation with drag and drop from file manager.

## See also

* Comparison of file archivers

## References

1. ↑ https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=ark.git&a=commit&h=5ca1bc0a0cfa8b6abb3c5d4936e4deebb3f8638c [|permanent dead link|dead link}}]

## External links

* v
* t
* e

KDE

Software
Compilation|

* KDE 1
* KDE 2
* KDE 3
* KDE SC 4
* Post-fourth series
* KDE Plasma 5
* KDE Frameworks
* KDE Applications

Applications
by KDE|

| Development|

* Cervisia
* KDevelop
* KImageMapEditor
* Kompare
* Quanta Plus
* Umbrello

|

Education|

* Cantor
* GCompris
* KAlgebra
* Kanagram
* KBibTeX
* KGeography
* KHangMan
* Kig
* Kiten
* KLettres
* KmPlot
* KStars
* KTouch
* KTurtle
* KWordQuiz
* LabPlot
* Marble
* RKWard
* Step

Graphics|

* digiKam
* Gwenview
* Karbon
* KColorEdit
* KolourPaint
* KPhotoAlbum
* Krita
* Spectacle
* Skanlite

Internet|

* KGet
* KMLDonkey
* Konqueror
* Kontact
* Konversation
* Kopete
* KTorrent
* Rekonq

Multimedia|

* Amarok
* Dragon Player
* JuK
* K3b
* Kaffeine
* Kdenlive

Office|

* Okular
* Calligra Suite
* Words
* Sheets
* Stage
* Flow
* Karbon
* Kexi
* Plan
* Kile
* KMyMoney
* Kontact
* KPilot
* Tellico
* Trojitá

System|

* Discover
* Dolphin
* KDE Partition Manager
* KDE System Guard
* KInfoCenter
* Konsole
* Yakuake

Utilities|

* Ark
* Filelight
* KAlarm
* Kate
* KCalc
* KGPG
* Klipper
* Krusader
* KRename
* KWallet
* KWrite

Platform|

| User interface|

| Current|

* KDE Plasma 5
* KWin

|

Discontinued|

* KDesktop
* Kicker
* SuperKaramba
* KDE Plasma 4
* KSnapshot
* Oxygen Project
* Crystal Project

Current|

* KWin
* SDDM (5–)
* Qt
* KDE Frameworks 5 (5–)
* Akonadi
* Flake
* KJS
* KHTML
* KIO
* ThreadWeaver
* KIPI
* KParts
* Kross
* Phonon
* Solid
* Sonnet
* XMLGUI

Discontinued|

* KDElibs (–3)
* DCOP (3)
* KDE Platform 4 (4)
* KDM (–4)
* NEPOMUK (4.13)
* Strigi

freedesktop.org
(shared)|

* AppStream
* D-Bus
* GStreamer
* NetworkManager
* Poppler
* Wayland
* X.Org Server
* PulseAudio

Community|

* KDE e.V.
* Akademy
* KDE.News
* Konqi

People|

* Matthias Kalle Dalheimer
* Matthias Ettrich
* Adriaan de Groot
* Frank Karlitschek
* Celeste Lyn Paul
* Nuno Pinheiro
* Cornelius Schumacher
* David Vignoni

* Category

* v
* t
* e

Data compression software

Archivers with
compression
(comparison)|

| Free software|

* 7-Zip
* Archive Manager
* Ark
* Expander
* FreeArc
* Info-ZIP
* KGB Archiver
* PAQ
* PeaZip
* tar
* XAD (decompression only)
* Xarchiver
* Zipeg
* ZPAQ

|

Freeware|

* Filzip
* LHA
* StuffIt Expander (decompression only)
* The Unarchiver (decompression only)
* TUGZip
* ZipGenius

Commercial|

* ARC
* ALZip
* Archive Utility
* ARJ
* BetterZip
* JAR
* MacBinary
* PKZIP/SecureZIP
* PowerArchiver
* StuffIt
* WinAce
* WinRAR
* WinZip

Non-archiving
compressors|

| Generic|

* bzip2
* compress
* gzip
* lzip
* lzop
* pack
* rzip
* Snappy
* XZ Utils

|

For code|

UPX

Audio
compression
(comparison)|

| Lossy|

* Fraunhofer FDK AAC
* Nero AAC Codec
* Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC)
* Helix DNA Producer
* l3enc
* LAME
* TooLAME
* libavcodec
* libcelt
* libopus
* libspeex
* Musepack
* libvorbis
* Windows Media Encoder

|

Lossless|

* ALAC
* FLAC
* libavcodec
* Monkey's Audio
* mp4als
* OptimFROG
* Shorten
* TTA (True Audio)
* WavPack

Video
compression
(comparison)|

| Lossy|

| MPEG-4 ASP|

* 3ivx
* DivX
* Nero Digital
* FFmpeg
* HDX4
* Xvid

|

H.264 /
MPEG-4 AVC|

* CoreAVC
* Blu-code
* DivX
* FFmpeg
* Nero Digital
* OpenH264
* QuickTime
* x264

HEVC|

* DivX
* x265

Others|

* CineForm
* Cinepak
* Daala
* DNxHD
* Helix DNA Producer
* Indeo
* libavcodec
* Schrödinger (Dirac)
* SBC
* Sorenson
* VP7
* libtheora
* libvpx
* Windows Media Encoder

Lossless|

* FFV1
* Huffyuv
* Lagarith
* MSU Lossless
* YULS

* See also: compression methods and compression formats

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