Bug#599432: zenity munges underscores into activators without mentioning in man page

[Britton Leo Kerin]

Package: zenity
Version: 2.22.1-2
Severity: normal


I found some documentation on the web which explicitly mentiontions this
behavior.  The man page doesn't.  Neither source seems to mention that you appear to be able to get around the problem by using a double underscore to mean underscore.  Its pretty bad because everything seems to work until you hit an underscore.  zenity is used from scripts and such to show random gunk so it seems this characteristic is a lot more likely to cause confusion than be useful, I think that:

* this feature should require a command line option to take effect

* the man page should be updated to discuss it 

* the double-underscore trick should be described somewhere

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages zenity depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2        2.3.20-2             Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0         1.22.0-1             The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6               2.7-18lenny2         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2           1.6.4-7              The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.2.1-5+lenny1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2    0.76-1               simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglade2-0         1:2.6.2-1            library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.16.6-3             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0   2.20.1.1-1           A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.12.12-1~lenny1     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnotify1 [libnoti 0.4.4-3              sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.20.5-5+lenny1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libxml2             2.6.32.dfsg-5+lenny1 GNOME XML library
ii  rarian-compat [scro 0.8.1-1              Rarian is a documentation meta-dat

zenity recommends no packages.

zenity suggests no packages.

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