Quotes around the application name in .desktop files

David Faure faure at kde.org
Sat May 4 19:02:20 BST 2013


On Wednesday 24 April 2013 09:37:16 Michael Spencer wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 09:21:57 AM David Faure wrote:
> > If you can test that removing the double-quotes works (including when
> > launching from KRun/klauncher, i.e. the standard way), even when the
> > caption has a space in it, then I'd be glad to see a patch removing all
> > double-quotes from .desktop files.
> 
> I have verified that the removing the double quotes works, even with a space
> in the caption, for KRun, the Application Launcher, and the Homerun
> Launcher, but I can't do the patch myself, as I'm new to KDE development
> and not familiar with patching in general.

Done, I removed double-quotes around %c in all the .desktop files I could find 
in my KDE SC checkouts (including extragear and playground).

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE, in particular KDE Frameworks 5





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