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ocrfeeder package

Launcher parameter makes operation fail

Bug #1520898 reported by Barry Drake on 2015-11-29

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1533039: Menu invocation fails, as .desktop file calls with -i %f, but there is no image.. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ocrfeeder (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The Launcher has the parameter -i with the argument %f. It seems that the "%f" is no longer valid. The current launcher throws the error: No such file or directory: '%f' I have reported this as GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 758797 on the upstream bug tracker. The problem began sometime during the development of Wily - I'm not sure exactly when as I don't often need ocrfeeder.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ocrfeeder 0.8.1-2 [modified: usr/share/applications/ocrfeeder.desktop]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-19.23-generic 4.2.6
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Nov 29 09:19:49 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-12 (17 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20151111)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ocrfeeder
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Barry Drake (b-drake) wrote on 2015-11-29:

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Simon Murgelj (simon-murgelj) wrote on 2016-06-18:

I installed the ocrfeeder today (sudo apt-get install ocrfeeder).

If I start ocrfeeder from Unity launcher (OCRFeeder), the app doesn't start.
If I start ocrfeeder from terminal (ocrfeeder &), the app starts.

The workaround is to edit /usr/share/applications/ocrfeeder.desktop (sudo nano /usr/share/applications/ocrfeeder.desktop) and replace the line "Exec=ocrfeeder -i %f" with "Exec=ocrfeeder", and save (ctrl+x, y, enter). Then the OCRFeeder from Unity launcher works as intended.