Ubuntu
gnome-terminal package

escape spaces in paths of files dragged from Nautilus

Bug #3512 reported by Joachim Noreiko
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #54602: quote filename on dnd. Edit Remove
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gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
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Ubuntu GNOME

Bug Description

Dragging a file from Nautilus to Terminal inserts the path of the file at the text prompt.
This is very useful when working with long paths.
However, if a part of the path has a space in it, it must be escaped, otherwise the shell does not understand it.

This bug is reported in GNOME bugzilla, but the developers have not fixed it since 2002 and appear to think it's not a problem.
See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85926

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. The right place to "fix" that is upstream

Changed in gnome-terminal:
assignee: nobody → gnome
status: New → Fixed
status: Fixed → Rejected
Revision history for this message
Joachim Noreiko (jnoreiko) wrote :

I know.
But upstream won't fix it.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

and we don't want to maintain a fork, the right place to argue and get it fixed is upstream

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