Unity Alt+F2 doesn’t understand shell quoting

[Anders Kaseorg]

Binary package hint: unity-place-applications

If you press Alt+F2 and run
  zenity --info --text='two words'
you get a dialog that says
  'two
instead of the correct
  two words
that you’d get running the same command in a terminal or from Alt+F2 in a classic GNOME session.

Please pass the command string to the shell using sh -c, instead of interpreting it ad-hoc by splitting on spaces.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 3.8.12-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.39-0.5-generic 2.6.39-rc5
Uname: Linux 2.6.39-0-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell]
Date: Thu May 5 19:38:06 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20101202)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks confirmed and reproduced in Oneiric. It doesn't understand backslash escape sequence either. Setting to triaged/high (affects a core functionality and a large portion of users)