Exo

exo-open tries to open directory with an email program

Bug #262125 reported by Forest on 2008-08-28

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Exo	Confirmed	Unknown	xfce-bugs #4330
exo (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
tracker (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

exo-open fails to open certain directories on my file system, namely those with email addresses in their names. If I run exo-open /home/forest/foo, it correctly opens a Thunar window to that directory. If I run exo-open /<email address hidden>, it launches my email program, which (of course) fails to do anything useful.

I noticed this because it seems to be the cause of Ubuntu's Tracker search tool failing to open my jabber (google talk) message log directories, which are created by pidgin.

This is on ubuntu hardy, libexo-0.3-0.

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lp:ubuntu/karmic/exo

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Forest (foresto) wrote on 2008-08-28:

clarification: I'm using xubuntu hardy.

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Forest (foresto) wrote on 2008-09-28:

This is still a problem in Intrepid alpha 6.

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Jannis Pohlmann (jannis-xfce) wrote on 2008-10-02:

Patch to add ^ and $ to URL expressions Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain)

The attached patch fixes the problem for me. I've reported the patch upstream.

Cody A.W. Somerville (cody-somerville) on 2008-10-02

Changed in tracker:
status:	New → Invalid

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2008-10-03:

This bug was fixed in the package exo - 0.3.4-7ubuntu4

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exo (0.3.4-7ubuntu4) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Added debian/patches/04_fix_broken_regexp.patch:
    - Add ^ and $ to url expressions to prevent exo from mistaking a
      directory as an e-mail address and opening the wrong helper application.
    - Closes lp: #262125
    - Kudos to Jannis Pohlmann for the patch.

-- <email address hidden> (Cody A.W. Somerville) Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:48:02 -0300