Zenity should ignore markup with a flag

[Jonathan Reed]

Zenity (specifically, the --info mode) should have a flag that will cause it to ignore Pango markup in its input. I frequently want to use Zenity to display output from scripts, and I shouldn't have to worry about whether the text has things like ampersands in it.

(This is particularly annoying, because instead of failing to run when given incorrect input, Zenity will silently default to "All updates are complete", but that's another bug.)

I know that I can pipe into zenity --text-info, but that's a workaround, and I don't particularly want to confuse the user by presenting them with a text entry dialog when I just want to display some status information.

Some sort of --ignore-pango flag for Zenity would be great.

jdreed@infinite-loop:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
jdreed@infinite-loop:~$ apt-cache policy zenity
zenity:
  Installed: 2.26.0-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2.26.0-0ubuntu2

[Joaquín Ismael Robles (ecologix2000)]

Can you post an example of text used? zenity --info --text ...

[Jonathan Reed (jdreed)]

Any text with an ampersand will trigger the bug.

$ zenity --info --text 'This has an & in it'

The following is printed to stderr:
(zenity:21569): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Error on line 1: Character ' ' is not valid at the start of an entity name; the & character begins an entity; if this ampersand isn't supposed to be an entity, escape it as &

And zenity displays its default "All updates are complete" dialog instead of the text.

Ideally, it should be told to ignore Pango markup. Failing that, the man page should explicitly inform users that they need to escape anything that could be interpreted as Pango markup.

[Jonathan Reed (jdreed)]

And before anyone asks, yes this is still present in Lucid.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621907

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

Upstream fixed release is in Ubuntu

[Paul Whittaker (launchpad-pdw)]

Which package version includes that upstream bugfix? I'm still being bitten by this issue. This is on a fully up-to-date 12.04.3 system.

$ apt-cache policy zenity
zenity:
  Installed: 3.4.0-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 3.4.0-0ubuntu4

$ zenity --info --text 'x & y'

(zenity:14047): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Error on line 1: Entity did not end with a semicolon; most likely you used an ampersand character without intending to start an entity - escape ampersand as &

(zenity:14047): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Error on line 1: Entity did not end with a semicolon; most likely you used an ampersand character without intending to start an entity - escape ampersand as &

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[WoodyEckelzone (bcr497)]

Use `--no-markup` flag