I noticed this as my emacs needs to find the "p4" binary in the path, otherwise
it asks where it is, obviously if I double click on a file it is very annoying
to then have to type in the full path to the p4 binary.
To observe that the PATH isn't getting passed, do the following:
1) Find a tar file that contains a text file
2) Open the tar file in file-roller
3) Select "Open File..." from the context menu of the file, and use
"x-terminal-emulator -e less" as the command
4) Find the x-termainal-emulator instance pid and run the following command:
sudo cat /proc/<pid>/environ | xargs -0 -n1 echo | grep \^PATH=
Observe there is no PATH in the environment.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303014: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303014
*** Bug 16368 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***