Bug#583398: opening files from thunar does not work, wrong path arguement in smplayer.desktop?

Reinhard Tartler siretart at tauware.de
Thu May 27 19:01:20 UTC 2010


On Do, Mai 27, 2010 at 18:36:19 (CEST), hennr wrote:
> Exec=smplayer %U
>
> which leads to the problem that opening files from thunar (right click
> => open file with) will not work
> if there are spaces in the filename.
> Changing it back to:
>
> Exec=smplayer %f
>
> fixes the problem.
>
> For more information have a look at this forum thread:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-827924.html?sid=0d94a2f6d493169934ffe833fbaa545b

Doesn't this break opening URL that don't start with file:// ?

The same problem exists in vlc as well:

http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2131



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