Ark (software)

Ark
	A screenshot of Ark in KDE 4.1
Developer(s)	Rob Palmbos, Francois-Xavier Duranceau, Emily Ezust, Roberto Selbach Teixeira, Helio Castro, Georg Robbers, Henrique Pinto, Harald Hvaal, Raphael Kubo da Costa
Stable release	2.19 August 1, 2012
Repository	invent.kde.org/utilities/ark ;
Written in	C++ (Qt)
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	File archiver
License	GPL
Website	http://utils.kde.org/projects/ark

Ark is an archiving tool for the KDE Software Compilation, included into kdeutils package.

Features

Ark does not intrinsically understand any archive format, but instead acts as a frontend to command-line archivers. It can work with many backends, including 7z, tar, rar, zip, gzip, bzip2, lha, zoo, and ar.
Ark can be integrated into Konqueror, through KParts technology, if the appropriate plugin from kdeaddons package is installed. 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.
Archives creation with drag and drop.