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Hello.

Although I know that gnome-vfs should die some day, I've spent week on investigation of this issue and really appreciate any comments on the patch I'll attach. The problem occurs that ~/gnome-open stopped working on *.html files with the error:

Error showing url: There was an error launching the default action command associated with this location.

Now I know that to reproduce this behavior you should have .desktop file (mozillafirefox-2.0.desktop in my case) with 'Path=' element inside. So just add 'Path=' into desktop file and you'll get this behavior.

Inside gnome_vfs_mime_application_launch_with_env() (gnome-vfs-mime-handlers.c:1016) the g_spawn_async receives as it's first parameter app->priv->path which is just '' in case you have 'Path=' in .desktop file and as the result g_spawn_async returns with error->message:

Error: Failed to change to directory '' (No such file or directory)

If you do not have 'Path=' this parameter is (null) and if you have 'Path=/any/dir' this parameter is /any/dir.

If I understood correctly the root of the problem is gnome_vfs_mime_application_new_from_desktop_id() function. It just fill in app->priv->path:
app->priv->path = g_key_file_get_string (key_file, DESKTOP_ENTRY_GROUP,
                                                 "Path", NULL);
and does not check for value. So my solution is to check and if app->priv->path is "" then set it explicitly into NULL. Something like:

if (!g_ascii_strcasecmp(app->priv->path,""))
  app->priv->path=NULL;

Thank you for your time,
Peter.

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