wakeonlan doesn't work from KDE Menu any longer

Bug #1712593 reported by udippel
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Bug Description

I used wakeonlan on 14.04, added to the usual KDE menu, as an entry like
wakeonlan C3:22:45:67:89:00
This would always work. No changes to the menu, and upgrade to 16.04, this same command fails, when called up from the menu.
However, when called from CLI, that other machine starts perfectly okay.

Now I wonder, if wakeonlan has changed not reading the parameters when started from KDE menu; or does KDE menu have changed to not any longer directly accept parameters to be parsed additionally?
As of now, I assume the former, since all other commands work perfectly okay.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: wakeonlan 0.41-11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-92.115-generic 4.4.76
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-92-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Wed Aug 23 16:23:20 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-01 (874 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: wakeonlan
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-12-07 (258 days ago)

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udippel (udippel) wrote :
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udippel (udippel) wrote :

I can confirm this change of behaviour, and it points to the KDE menue rather than wakeonlan.
Since I wrote 'wakeonlan' and the MAC-address into file, saved it under /usr/local/bin, the machine starts perfectly okay.
Therefore, it really looks like an inconsistency of KDE, and its behaviour of accepting parameters following a command.

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