GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 698740
Generic filename is not supported by most filesystem (':' + vfat)
Last modified: 2014-11-22 01:49:35 UTC
Created attachment 242325 [details] [review] 0001-workaround-support-broken-filesystem-which-cant-hand.patch Hi, I made a little workaround to avoid to use columns (':') in filenames Else if user save data on his UMS or foreign/hostile filesystem (vfat) it will fails...
Makes sense to me. While we are at this, it might be nice to turn the last remaining space in the name into a dash too, out of respect for commandline users who otherwise get to see ugly \-escaped spaces
Created attachment 243072 [details] [review] 0001-Build-more-convenient-filenames-no-or.patch As suggested
Also see bug 684662 for the same issue (duplicate).
*** Bug 684662 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hmmm.... the original bug was #684662, so I think that the duplicates are the other ways around. Not important. But in the proposed patch there is something that bothers me a bit --- the addition of literal "h", "m", "s" to the timestamp format goes a bit against the translations philosophy. No?
*** Bug 720397 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Is there any plan to fix this issue?
I also would like to see this resolved. And there is already a ready-to-use patch in the old issue: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684662#c6
Hi, this filename thing causes many issues for me day to day. The presence of both spaces and colons in the file name means that uploading screenshots to owncloud, for example, requires me to change the filename. A quick search of the net finds people complaining about comparability issues with Dropbox, web-hosts, Samba, etc etc. Please can someone fix this, it's making me miserable :(
Another use case that breaks is uploading the file directly to Jira. I can still reproduce it on version 3.14.0. Could the version be bumped and marked as confirmed, as to bring it to the devs attention?
The bug exist since longer, 2012 on 3.4 ( read https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684662 ) I confirm it's still exist on 3.14 and patches propositions are available on this thread. Can someone inform us why this topic is ignored ? Is it controversial or hard to fix ? Or is it just out-of-attention/out-of-concern because of the 3.8 label ? Thanks for your time.
Like @nicofff I am annoyed when I try to add screenshots to Jira. I'm also having trouble with Hipchat. Please change the `:` character!
Thanks, I pushed this to master. gnome-settings-daemon will need a similar patch though - I will open another issue about that.
That is bug 740520