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glib2.0 package

Character "~" not working in launcher commands

Bug #291983 reported by Ansus on 2008-11-01

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to
	GLib	Invalid	Medium	gnome-bugs #579162
	glib2.0 (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Declined for Intrepid by Sebastien Bacher
Declined for Jaunty by Sebastien Bacher

Bug Description

Standard Wine menu entry does not work. The properties of the entry are shown in the screenshot. When clicking there is no effect. But if to run command xdg-open ~/.wine/drive_c from command line, all works well. If to place the shortcut on the desktop also does not work.

This emerged after upgrade to Intrepid

Have no idea why the same command runs from command line but does not from shortcut.

See original description

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Ansus (neptunia) wrote on 2008-11-01:

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Ansus (neptunia) wrote on 2008-11-01:

This is not a wine's problem. this does not work it to replace directory name with any other.

Simply the same command works from commant line, but does not from shortcut.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-11-01:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

Changed in nautilus:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Incomplete

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Ansus (neptunia) wrote on 2008-11-01:

> Is this reproducible?

Do not know

>If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

Try to run the abovementioned shortcut in Intrepid.

Ansus (neptunia) on 2008-11-01

Changed in nautilus:
status:	Incomplete → New

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Alex Kunitsa (mc-troy) wrote on 2008-11-01:

I have the same problem in Intrepid

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Андрей Калинин (prize2step) wrote on 2008-11-01:

Confirm this bug on 8.10 amd64.

Ansus (neptunia) on 2008-11-01

Changed in nautilus:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote on 2008-11-02:

This is worked around in the Wine package in Intrepid. I still haven't fixed the winehq 1.1.7 ones yet though.

Basically, somewhere between Hardy and Intrepid, launching from a shortcut "forgot" how to translate $HOME.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-11-06: Re: Character "~" does not link to home directory from Nautilus shortcuts in Intrepid

did that ever worked in GNOME dialogs?

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2009-01-29:

May someone send this upstream to bugzilla.gnome.org? thanks.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2009-04-16:

#10

upstream says that's a gio GDesktopAppLauncher bug

affects:

nautilus (Ubuntu) → glib2.0 (Ubuntu)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2009-04-16:

#11

The bug has been sent to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579162

summary:	- Character "~" does not link to home directory from Nautilus shortcuts in - Intrepid + Character "~" not working in launcher commands
Changed in glib2.0 (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2009-04-16

Changed in glib:
status:	Unknown → New

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2009-05-13

Changed in glib:
status:	New → Invalid

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2009-05-13:

#12

upstream says that's not a bug

"As Dan says, this is not a bug as far as glibs desktop file handling is
concerned. The spec says that the Exec line must contain either a full path or
just a binary name to be searched for in PATH."