"Create Launcher" fails for path names with spaces

Bug #15050 reported by Dhonn
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Panel
Expired
High
gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Sebastien Bacher

Bug Description

Here's how it fails:

Right-Click the desktop
Create Launcher
Choose a file with spaces in the file name or path "/home/dhonn/hello world
application/hello world"
Run the application from the Launcher
It will not start!

The work around:

Right click the Launcher, click Properties
Click the Launcher tab and end it the Command to this
/home/dhonn/hello\ world\ application/hello\ world
Launch the launcher and notice it just works!

This bug always reproducible.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300253: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300253

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

right, I've opened a bug upstream about this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300253

Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :
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This upload fixes the bug:

 gnome-panel (2.19.2-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version:
     Panel
     - Code cleanups
     - Force the panel to not be restarted when there's already a panel
       running, fix endless loop of error dialogs
     - Add a checkbox to let the user choose to not restart the panel if
       there was a problem registering with bonobo at startup
     - Default the "Applet disappeared" dialog to reload
     - Default the "Can't load applet" dialog to not delete
     - Small HIG improvements to the launcher editor
     - Fix alignment of the run label in the run dialog
     - Fix creation of launchers with empty spaces in the command
     - Fix the launcher editor to not save a full-path icon for the
       non-localized icon when it's not needed
     - Fix gnome-desktop-item-edit work for relative URI when creating a
       .directory file
     - Use the launcher icon as a fallback for launchers without an icon
     - Guess the icon when the user enters a command in the launcher editor
     - Use macros for name icons to easily change the name of named icons
       when needed
     - Check whether reboot is enabled in gdm (and not only shutdown) and
       only show the buttons when they're useful in the logout dialog
     - Prefer /var/run/gdm_socket as path for the GDM socket
     - Take into account NAME_MAX for the length of the filename when
       guessing a name for launchers in gnome-desktop-item-edit
     - Fix creation of launcher when dragging an URL with ? or :
     - Make some error dialogs visible in the taskbar and make some other
       transient to the panel
     Clock Applet
     - Don't display tasks that are marked completed
     - Update the clock when the configuration tool exits so that the user
       doesn't have to wait up to one minute to see the change
     - Fix preferences window to not hide the custom format when it should
       be shown
     - Document that the custom format is the format used by strftime
     - Show the date by default in the applet
     - Let distributor easily specify their configuation tool instead of
       hardcoding everything
     - Update the clock every second for UNIX format
     - Make Internet time work a bit better
     Notification Area Applet
     - Fix compiler warning
     Misc
     - Install data files in $(datadir)/gnome-panel/ instead of
       $(datadir)/gnome/panel/ (Vincent)
     - Add --with-clock-time-utility configure flag
     - Run gtk-update-icon-cache on uninstall
     - Make .desktop file used for bug-buddy translatable
   * Sync with Debian
   * debian/application-default-icon.png.uue:
     - default icon for the menu entries.
   * debian/control.in:
     - Build-Depends on liblpint-bonobo-dev, liblaunchpad-integration-dev
     - gnome-panel Recommends menu-xdg instead of Depends on it
       and Recommends alacarte
     - gnome-panel Suggests fortunes-mod, it's used by the fish applet
     - maintainer is the Ubuntu Desktop Team
   * debian/gnome-panel-data.install:
     - updated and install the "About Ubuntu" menu item
   * debian/gnome-panel-data.p...

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Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Revision history for this message
Gahataka (gahataka) wrote :

This is an old bug but its still affects me ! I'm on Ubuntu lucid 10.04 AMD64.

Changed in gnome-panel:
importance: Unknown → High
status: Invalid → Expired
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