Bug 1047116

Summary:	environment variables not expanded from desktop icons
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ed Greshko <ed.greshko>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	20	CC:	bugs.michael, fmuellner, mrsam, otaylor, samkraju, walters
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Description Ed Greshko 2013-12-29 08:00:03 UTC

Description of problem: environment variable not expanded when application is launched from a desktop icon.

The desktop file is as follows...

[egreshko@f20f ]$ cat Desktop/gnome-terminal.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=
Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --working-directory=$HOME/Desktop
GenericName[en_US]=Gnome Terminal
GenericName=Gnome Terminal
Icon=utilities-terminal
MimeType=
Name[en_US]=gnome-terminal
Name=gnome-terminal
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-DBUS-ServiceName=
X-DBUS-StartupType=
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

If I click on the desktop icon in KDE the --working-directory option is honored and $HOME is expanded..

However, if I double click on the desktop icon in GNOME that parameter has no effect unless I replace $HOME with the actual path name.  So, for some reason GNOME is not expanding the $HOME variable.

Also, if I execute "/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --working-directory=$HOME/Desktop" from within an existing terminal session $HOME will be expanded.


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How reproducible:  See above


Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results: $HOME is not expanded


Expected results: $HOME should be expanded


Additional info:

Comment 1 Michael Schwendt 2013-12-29 13:18:26 UTC

similar to bug 1046980 - gnome-terminal's initial home directory is /

Comment 2 Sam Varshavchik 2013-12-29 15:05:33 UTC

This has been the case for the long time.

gnome-shell appears to take what's in Exec, split it into individual words, with some basic quoting algorithm, then pass the whole thing to exec().

The workaround for both bugs, this one and 1046980, which is a different bug, is the same:

Exec=sh -c "gnome-terminal --working-directory=$HOME &"

Comment 3 Ed Greshko 2013-12-29 21:57:58 UTC

Of course the existence of a workaround doesn't negate the existence of a bug.

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