Ubuntu
alacarte package

replaces \r by carriage return

Bug #63168 reported by finalbeta on 2006-09-30

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	alacarte (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Travis Watkins

Bug Description

When adding a menu item, using \r in any of the fields causes it to be converted to a carriage return.

The same problem also happens when you use \n.

Example : "wine explorer /desktop=FlashFXP,1250x920 "C:\Program Files\Radmin\radmin.exe""
This command would have the \r from \radmin.exe converted to a carriage return. Obviously the command no longer works after editing it with alacarte.

Tested in Edgy

See original description

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Mateusz Drożdżyński (matid) wrote on 2006-09-30:

I confirm this problem on Edgy.

description:	updated
Changed in alacarte:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Mateusz Drożdżyński (matid) wrote on 2006-09-30:

Screenshot of a menu item with \r character Edit (20.7 KiB, image/png)

I attach a screenshot of a menu item having \r in the command field.

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Travis Watkins (amaranth) wrote on 2006-10-02:

As far as I can tell alacarte never broke the actual .desktop file, it just rendering it's contents incorrectly. Either way, this should be fixed in CVS and will get into 0.10.1

Changed in alacarte:
assignee:	nobody → amaranth
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2006-10-03:

This upload fixes the issue:

" alacarte (0.10.1-0ubuntu1) edgy; urgency=low
.
   * New upstream version:
     - lots of small fixes
     - fix "Browse dialog doesn't escape spaces in command path"
       (Ubuntu: #54748)
     - fix "replaces \r by carriage return" (Ubuntu: #63168)
"