Yes, please provide information how to escape paths with spaces. There's
no example I can find, and it seems impossible to satisfy the parser (I
can't make my entry appear at all).
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I'm experiencing the same problem, and tracked it down to the 'exec'
line in the '.desktop' file. I'm seeing the same behavior, whether I
use the menu editor to create the '.desktop' file, or if I hand-edit the
file to modify the 'exec' line.
Ironically, I ran into this with Wine, just as the
AHA!!! It's NOT a bug in the 'exec' parser!!!
I found it... It's a bug in the way the menu editor Wine
create/manage/display the menus. It's not acting consistently!
Here's what's happening: I'm running 64-bit Karmic. I have an
application I installed in Wine 1.1.38 called MyApp. When
FYI, after creating the desktop file with gnome-desktop-item-edit and
the string you quoted above, my desktop file actually contained the
following exec line:
Exec=env WINEPREFIX=/home/vorlon/.wine wine
C:comlogoComlogo.exe c:comlogodemokidspac.lgp
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strange escape handling
I've recreated this now. Steve, did you manually edit the Exec line of
the desktop file? The only reason I ask is that I just created a fresh
desktop file using gnome-desktop-item-edit, and entered the Exec line
that you quoted, but gnome-desktop-item-edit doubled the number of
backslashes in the
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:58:29PM -, Chris Coulson wrote:
I've recreated this now. Steve, did you manually edit the Exec line of
the desktop file?
No, it was auto-generated by wine.
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This is almost certainly caused by glib, so re-assigning.
** Changed in: glib2.0 (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: gnome-desktop = glib2.0
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strange escape handling in Exec line of .desktop files
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/335712
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And after looking at it again, I am almost certainly wrong. Re-assinging
back.
** Changed in: gnome-desktop (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: glib2.0 = gnome-desktop
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strange escape handling in Exec line of .desktop files
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/335712
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