Bug#509437: evince: Cannot easily open file with name containing ':' from the command-line

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 22 décembre 2008 à 03:45 -0800, Josh Triplett a écrit :
> I tried to open a postscript file named "f498e23-979-hd\:-hc.ps" on the
> command-line, and got an error message from evince.  I managed to puzzle
> out that evince choked on the colon.  (It would have helped if it said
> something like "unknown URI scheme 'f498e23-979-hd:'".)  Using the open
> dialog inside evince, or prefixing the name with ./ , convinces evince
> to open the file rather than guessing at a URI scheme.

This is not a problem limited to evince. Any application that accepts
URIs (exec=foo %U in foo.desktop) is bound to fail when you load such
files from the command line.

I don’t know how it is possible to fix this. Maybe the shell completion
could prepend a ./ in this case?

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