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title="NEW --- - xdg-desktop-menu does not support filenames with spaces"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66605">66605</a>
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>portland-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>xdg-desktop-menu does not support filenames with spaces
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Classification</th>
<td>Unclassified
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>mgiuca@chromium.org
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Version</th>
<td>1.1.0 rc1
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<th>Component</th>
<td>xdg-utils
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<th>Product</th>
<td>Portland
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<pre>Steps to reproduce:
1. Create a .desktop file with a vendor prefix and a space in the name. e.g.,
"foo-bar baz.desktop".
2. Run: xdg-desktop-menu install --mode user "foo-bar baz.desktop"
Expected result: The file is copied to "~/.local/share/applications/foo-bar
baz.desktop".
Actual result:
xdg-desktop-menu: filename 'baz.desktop' does not have a proper vendor prefix
A vendor prefix consists of alpha characters ([a-zA-Z]) and is terminated
with a dash ("-"). An example filename is 'example-baz.desktop'
Use --novendor to override or 'xdg-desktop-menu --manual' for additional info.
This is because it thinks I am passing two separate filenames ("foo-bar" and
"baz.desktop") even though I correctly used quotes on the command line. This is
caused by line 998 of the script, which concatenates all arguments ending in
.desktop onto $desktop_files, separating each argument with a space. After that
point, it is impossible to tell which spaces separate arguments and which are
part of the filename.
(Note that if all of the space-separated parts of the filename contain a "-",
you don't see the above error, it just fails silently because it can't find the
files it is trying to copy.)</pre>
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