cannot open a document with hash tag in the filename
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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evince (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
|
Didier Roche-Tolomelli | ||
Lucid |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Maverick |
Fix Released
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Low
|
Didier Roche-Tolomelli |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: evince
package pushed in -proposed:
evince (2.30.1-0ubuntu3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
[ Jamie Strandboge ]
* debian/
(LP: #490230)
[ Didier Roche ]
* debian/
Fix opening files with '#' in its name (LP: #578996)
evince (2.30.1-0ubuntu2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* add debian/
fix dot dir creation when launching evince directly (LP: #571725)
evince (2.30.1-0ubuntu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* New upstream release:
Bug fixes:
- Make inverted colors mode work in presentation mode too
(#614693, Carlos Garcia Campos)
- Respect GNOME22_USER_DIR env variable (#613637, Ray Strode)
- Fix loading of local documents when uri contains a page
destination (#616515, Carlos Garcia Campos)
- Take default settings from last document opened. Fixes
regression caused by migration to gio metadata (#606090, Carlos
Garcia Campos) (LP: #544639, #503372)
- Update icons to match gnome-icon-theme appearance (#614747,
Hylke Bons, Carlos Garcia Campos)
- Make sure there's a new valid page range before updating caches
(fdo#27599, Carlos Garcia Campos)
- Update FSF address everywhere (#514607, Arun Persaud)
- Fix loading of compressed password-protected documents (#613959,
Carlos Garcia Campos)
- Close previewer window with control + w (#612972, Carlos Garcia
Campos)
- Fix keybindings in previewer window (#612972, Carlos Garcia
Campos)
Translation updates
Test case: try to open a PDF document with in #
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Bug description:
1. If there is a Hash tag (#) in a PDF document filename OR directory name then the following
is happening.
2. Double clicking on a pdf document (through Nautilus) with a hash tag in the filename (for
example /home/tester/
Evince:
3. Double clicking on a pdf document (through Nautilus) with a hash tag in the directory name
(for example /home/tester/
in Evince:
4. But if you open the PDF document from within Evince (already activated) then there is no
problem . The file is opened and displayed correctly.
5. But when you try to open a PDF document via Nautilus and Evince is already activated then
Evince doesn't responds and you cannot open the PDF document.
6. With other document viewers (adobe, gv) I have no problem viewing the document.
This appears to be similar to, but different than, bug #571293 and bug #572722
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04, evince is version 2.30.1-0ubuntu2. This is a regression from karmic.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: evince 2.30.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue May 11 23:17:50 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
LC_TIME=
LANGUAGE=en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
I can confirm this issue is reproducible under Lucid with evince 2.30.1-0ubuntu2