Package: gnome-panel
Severity: normal
Version: 2.4.1
Synopsis: Run dialog doesn't handle file URIs properly
Bugzilla-Product: gnome-panel
Bugzilla-Component: Panel

Description:
Description of Problem:

Before Gnome 2.4, <Alt><F2>/foo/bar RET would open the respective
directory in nautilus.

The current behaviour is utterly broken: When I enter e.g. /home, I see
this in ~/.xsession-errors:

/bin/bash: line 1: /home: is a directory

And nothing happens.

At the same time, "~" seems to be handled differently: If you enter e.g.
~/, the run dialog attempts to handle it, but then a message box pops
up, saying that "There was an error parsing the default action command
associated with this location"

So I registered Nautilus as url-handler for "file". After that,
<Alt><F2>~/ RET pops up my home dir in nautilus. But still, other
arbitrary paths without "~" won't work. The run dialog passes them to
the shell. It tries to execute them which of course fails.

Well, then I tried things like file:///home/jr and file:/home/jr which
gives me

/bin/bash: line 1: file:///home/jr: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht
gefunden
/bin/bash: line 1: file:/home/jr: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

I.e. "no such file or directory"

Expected Results:

Well, do I have to elaborate? Both file:///foo/bar and /foo/bar should
open up the respective dir in a nautilus window.

How often does this happen?

Fully reproducible.

Additional Information:

I'm running Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable on i386.




------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2003-10-22 17:31 -------

Reassigning to the default owner of the component, gnome-panel-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.