Bug 173308 – xfce-base/xfdesktop-4.5_pre20070325 chokes on %U in desktop files

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description Ivan 2007-04-04 07:46:07 UTC]

I recently had problems opening openoffice from the menu in xfce 4.4, where it would keep coming up with the error "/home/ivan/%U does not exist" then halt.

Changing to openoffice-bin didn't do anything, but when I found that this didn't occur when opening a file directly or through the command line, I looked in the desktop files and found what seems to be an error in them:

Gentoo applications # pwd
/usr/share/applications
Gentoo applications # fgrep %U openoffice.org-2.2-*
openoffice.org-2.2-base.desktop:Exec=ooffice -base %U
openoffice.org-2.2-calc.desktop:Exec=ooffice -calc %U
openoffice.org-2.2-draw.desktop:Exec=ooffice -draw %U
openoffice.org-2.2-impress.desktop:Exec=ooffice -impress %U
openoffice.org-2.2-math.desktop:Exec=ooffice -math %U
openoffice.org-2.2-writer.desktop:Exec=ooffice -writer %U

As far as I can tell, those %U entries in there are bugs.  Not sure if this is a Gentoo-related error, or upstream's (couldn't find this anywhere else though).

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-04-04 08:30:41 UTC]

This is not an OO.org bug; %U is just fine [1]; looks like it got even more broken sice Bug 96028 has been filed.

[1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s06.html

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-04-08 07:48:09 UTC]

By chance, have you tried w/ xfce-base/xfdesktop-4.5_pre20070325-r1 (you'll have to unmask it)?

[Comment 3 Ivan 2007-04-08 07:56:39 UTC]

That actually was my problem... :(

I masked it again, and it works properly... must be a bug with that version.

Thanks for your help.

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-04-08 08:00:15 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I masked it again, and it works properly... must be a bug with that version.

Please, make sure to report this upstream and post URL here for tracking

http://bugzilla.xfce.org/

[Comment 5 Ivan 2007-04-08 09:35:09 UTC]

Bug report on Xfce's bugzilla:

http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3106