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Regarding Part files limits and other options in the Compress dialog #440

@Bluey26

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@Bluey26

Hello.

I know i have been opening lots of issues lately, but this one is opened now so i do not forget to do it. (and because the other used didnt until now).

Some days ago, in the LXQt Matrix Room, somebody asked about why the file limit for the parts in the compression dialog was 1000MiB (Approximately 1GB). Since this user did not opened the issue, and i noticed some other things about this dialog, i decided to do so.

According to CLI tools like 7z (i.e. this cheatsheet: https://gist.github.com/Issykul/ce1b1c0b99de16bb7de1811e01a6e27f) there does not seem to be a limit to the part limits (other programs like WinRAR do not have it either, from what i recall). So at that discussion i arrived to the conclusion that this was a "self-imposed" limit by the lxqt-archiver or libfm-qt code.

That was the issue of the other user, but i also want to add this:

When i was experiencing with file formats some weeks ago, i noticed that some of the formats did not have password protection (they simply do not support it), other do not support file list encryption (most of them,7z only in my list) and i bet that not all of them support file-splitting.

So my suggestion for a future feature request would be: Is it possible to make the "Compress dialog" being "responsive" to the changes made around the format selected? In simple words: if i select the format zip, the option "Encrypt the file list too" should be blurred (not supported by the format) and when i select, for example, tar.gz, the option "Password" should be blurred (this formart IIRC does not support password protection).

As always, thanks for the patience and for the work on this project 😃

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