Comment 3 for bug 526138

Actually....

looking further into the Desktop file spec: http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s06.html

>>>Quoting must be done by enclosing the argument between double quotes and escaping the double quote character, backtick character ("`"), dollar sign ("$") and backslash character ("\") by preceding it with an additional backslash character. Implementations must undo quoting before expanding field codes and before passing the argument to the executable program. Reserved characters are space (" "), tab, newline, double quote, single quote ("'"), backslash character ("\"), greater-than sign (">"), less-than sign ("<"), tilde ("~"), vertical bar ("|"), ampersand ("&"), semicolon (";"), dollar sign ("$"), asterisk ("*"), question mark ("?"), hash mark ("#"), parenthesis ("(") and (")") and backtick character ("`"). <<<

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Double checking, when quotes are replaced by escaped quotes, the application opens normally. So technically, I suppose GMenu does in fact follow the spec properly. Interestingly, the menu associated with gnome-panel does not care whether quotes are properly escaped, so strictly speaking, the bug is in the gnome-panel menu and in the installation files for the applications that use the quotes improperly. However, it does not get noticed except when a program actually adheres to the spec, so the "bug" here is actually a strict adherence to the freedesktop spec.

I will look further into gnome-panel and file a report with gnome if necessary.