gnucash menu items containing '&' display underscore

[Colin Law]

Impact: some menus items are not correctly rendered (chars not escaped as they should)

Test Case:
- Install tomboy
- Open tomboy and create a note
- Replace the title for "a_b"
- Close the note
- Open the tomboy indicator menu to see that the entry for that note reads "ab" with an underlined b
- Open the note again
- Replace the title for "a_b & cd"
- Open the tomboy indicator menu to see that the entry for that note reads "a_b & cd"

Regression potential: some menu items could be incorrect escaped and have buggy characters

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Menu items that contain an ampersand character display a leading underscore, for example Actions > Check & Repair displays as _Check & Repair.

I gather from the gnucash mailing list that this is not seen in the same gnucash versioin with Fedora or KDE so possibly it is a Unity issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Tiago Neiva (tneiva)]

I installed Gnome Shell and in Gnome Shell it works ok. The issue is some how related with Unity.

[Tiago Neiva (tneiva)]

Commpilled from source in 11.10 and it works ok.
So the issue is a combinatoin of Ubuntu 12.04, running Unity and any version of gnucash 2.4.

It looks like an issue in the new version Unity

[Tiago Neiva (tneiva)]

Just confirmed it is not an issue in gnucash alone.

There is a "feature"/bug on tomboy notes that allows this issue to be reproduced in Precise Pangolin 12.04:

- Open tomboy and create a note
- Replace the title for "a_b"
- Close the note
- Open the tomboy indicator menu to see that the entry for that note reads "ab" with an underlined b
- Open the note again
- Replace the title for "a_b & cd"
- Open the tomboy indicator menu to see that the entry for that note reads "a_b & cd"

There is something wrong on the interpretation of strings with "&" that "kills" the correct interpretation of underscore as a key accelerator in unity.

[Tiago Neiva (tneiva)]

The issue is common to more then one application and only occurs with Unity in 12.04

[Colin Law (colin-law)]

I am seeing it on unity-2d so setting also affects -> unity-2d

[Chadwick-ferguson (chadwick-ferguson)]

Screen shot: http://i.imgur.com/o5jYn.png

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libdbusmenu - 0.6.2-0ubuntu1

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libdbusmenu (0.6.2-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    * Fixed duplicated underscores in menus (LP: #979301)
    * Fix for keybindings not showing in menus bug (LP: #982656)
    * DbusmenuServer leaks private string (LP: #981766)
    * Ensure menuitems with '&' show them properly (LP: #994564)
 -- Ted Gould <email address hidden> Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:44:52 -0500

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Hello Colin, or anyone else affected,

Accepted libdbusmenu into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdbusmenu/0.6.2-0ubuntu0.1 in a few hours and then in the -proposed repository. Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case details of your testing will help us make a better decision. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

The changelog doesn't mention that you've also added a whole bunch of docs to the package, but I guess that's okay.

[Tiago Neiva (tneiva)]

Installed proposed version, tested on both tomboy and gnucash and the bug was FIXED.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

@Tiago: thanks for testing!

[Scott Kostyshak (scott-kostyshak)]

I had this same problem for LyX (e.g., Edit > Find & Replace (Quick)).

This patch fixed the problem for me. Thank you!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libdbusmenu - 0.6.2-0ubuntu0.1

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libdbusmenu (0.6.2-0ubuntu0.1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    * Ensure menuitems with '&' show them properly (LP: #994564)
 -- Ted Gould <email address hidden> Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:44:52 -0500