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Bug 590275 - menu fails to open nautilus if bookmarked folder has accented character
menu fails to open nautilus if bookmarked folder has accented character
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: menu
2.32.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-07-30 14:48 UTC by Victor Vargas
Modified: 2020-11-06 20:26 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.25/2.26



Description Victor Vargas 2009-07-30 14:48:46 UTC
I have:
  export LC_ALL=C
in my ~/.xprofile file, so that 'ls -al' will list files in proper alphabetical order. '.' comes before 'a', so I want to see my dotfiles before my regular files, not mixed together.

I have some bookmarks in nautilus. These show up in the Places>Bookmarks folder. But for any bookmark to a folder with a non-ascii character in its name, clicking it from the Place>Bookmarks menu shows an 'opening ...' entry in the panel for a few seconds, but nautilus never opens a window. If I open my home folder and then click the bookmark it does work however.

Here's how to reproduce:

1. put this line in ~/.xprofile:
export LC_ALL=C
then log out and in again

2. make a directory with an accented character in its name:
mkdir $(echo ab | tr a \\303 | tr b \\251)
that makes a folder which shows up as 'e acute' if LC_ALL isn't set to C

3. bookmark that directory in nautilus

4. click the bookmark in the gnome-panel Places>Bookmark menu.

you'll see that it tries to open the folder, but fails after a while

5. open your home folder and try the bookmark from there - it works

6. remove the LC_ALL=C line from ~/.xprofile, log out and in again

7. try the bookmark again, and it works now
Comment 1 Marcus Carlson 2010-07-21 22:16:20 UTC
Isn't this a problem of gnome-panel?
Comment 2 Fabio Durán Verdugo 2010-11-02 22:46:14 UTC
This bug was reported against a version which is not supported any more. Developers are no longer working on this version so there will not be any bug fixes for it.
Can you please check again if the issue you reported here still happens in a recent version of GNOME and update this report by adding a comment and adjusting the 'Version' field?

Again thank you for reporting this and sorry that it could not be fixed for the version you originally used here.

Without feedback this report will be closed as INCOMPLETE after 6 weeks.
Comment 3 Fabio Durán Verdugo 2010-12-08 03:28:10 UTC
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for.
Thanks!
Comment 4 Dooglus 2011-01-10 18:23:04 UTC
The bug still happens with these versions:

||/ Name                             Version                          Description
+++-================================-================================-================================================================================
ii  gnome-panel                      1:2.32.1-0ubuntu4                launcher and docking facility for GNOME
ii  nautilus                         1:2.32.2.1-0ubuntu1              file manager and graphical shell for GNOME


Now, instead of nautilus not opening when I click the accented bookmark, I see a popup with the following in it:

"Failed to execute default File Manager.

Input/output error.

    [Close]"

Clicking any other bookmark runs nautilus as expected.
Comment 5 Dooglus 2011-01-10 18:23:59 UTC
I don't appear to be able to edit the 'version' field.
Comment 6 Cosimo Cecchi 2011-01-12 11:09:32 UTC
-> gnome-panel

If it works from nautilus, my guess is this could be a problem with gnome-panel not escaping the location name properly, reassigning.
Comment 7 André Klapper 2020-11-06 20:26:42 UTC
bugzilla.gnome.org is being replaced by gitlab.gnome.org. We are closing all old bug reports in Bugzilla which have not seen updates for many years.

If you can still reproduce this issue in a currently supported version of GNOME (currently that would be 3.38), then please feel free to report it at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-panel/-/issues/

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry it could not be fixed.