command line programs with arguments not executed

[Michael Gratton]

Binary package hint: gnome-do

Since upgrading to Meerkat, Do no longer correctly executes command line programs.

To reproduce, invoke Do and type a command on your path, say: zenity --info and choose Run as the action. You should see a Zenity dialog appear, instead the following error is reported in ~/..xsession-errors:

> gvfs-open: file:///home/mjg/zenity%20--info: error opening location: Error stating file '/home/mjg/zenity --info': No such file or directory

[Michael Gratton (mjog)]

Running commands without arguments is working, but it you need to pass an argument it fails (presumably because of the URL encoding of the space in the gvfs-open call?).

[Sebastock (sebastock)]

I have a similar problem since I upgraded to Meerkat. All my scripts with an argument are no longer working in gnome-do. For example, the command "helps octave" gives me this error message:

>gvfs-open: file:///home/seba/helps%20octave: error opening location: Error stating file '/home/seba/helps octave': No such file or directory

For now, I'm using the command dialog (alt+f2) to execute my scripts.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.