Bug 1246383

*** Bug 1246346 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Yeah, I guess that's okay, except that my Calibre library is nearly *unusable* now, while xdg-open still works in other situations.  So, I'm worried this isn't going to get fixed.  Calibre is severely impacted, while only one feature of xdg-open is broken.

Under what DE are you seeing this?

It works for me on kde, ie,
kde-open 'file:///tmp/space%20name.txt'
works

And what does this say with your test-case?

XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=2 xdg-open 'file:///tmp/space%20name.txt'

$ XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=2 xdg-open 'file:///tmp/space%20name.txt'
Selected DE xfce

I'm using Xfce.

What does kde-open have to do with it?  Why didn't you try xdg-open?  kde-open isn't even part of the xdg-utils package.

(I did try xdg-open, it worked the same way for me, because xdg-open is essentially just a wrapper for DE-specific tools.

Now, in your case, all xdg-open does on xfce is pass the input on to xfce's exo-open.  It appears that exo-open is failing here, and seemingly not able to handle encoded url's

# works
$ exo-open '/tmp/space name.txt'
$ exo-open file:///tmp/space\ name.txt
$ exo-open 'file:///tmp/space name.txt'


# does not work
$ exo-open 'file:///tmp/space%20name.txt'



exo maintainer(s), is this a bug or feature?  If not a bug, we'll probably have to modify xdg-open to not try using exo-open anymore.

Bug. 

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12017

I'll see about making a scratch build with the patch to test later unless someone beats me to it. ;)

thanks (updating summary)

(In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #6)
> (I did try xdg-open, it worked the same way for me, because xdg-open is
> essentially just a wrapper for DE-specific tools.

Ah, right, sorry!  I did learn that at some point in the past; I just forgot.

Thanks!

Can you please try this scratch build and let me know if it fixes the issue?

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=10563906

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the new build so quick.

I think I did it right, but I got the same error, so let me tell you what I did.

1) downloaded the rpm exo-0.10.6-4.fc22.x86_64.rpm from koji (from you src build task)
2) installed it with 'rpm -Uvh ...rpm'
3) tried it with 'exo-open "file:///home/.../onea%20two.txt"'

This gives a dialog box with

Error when getting information for file '/home/pdestefa/tmp/exoProblem/one%20two.txt': No such file or directory.

So, that is the same as before.

Bah. 

Try this build:

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=10587846

Any better?

Yes!  Works on my exo-open and xdg-open tests.  And, better yet, it fixed my Calibre library.  (I don't know why having Calibre misbehave was so uncomfortable, but it really was.)

Thanks much!

exo-0.10.6-4.fc23 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 23.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/exo-0.10.6-4.fc23

exo-0.10.6-4.fc22 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 22.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/exo-0.10.6-4.fc22

Package exo-0.10.6-4.fc23:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing exo-0.10.6-4.fc23'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-12859/exo-0.10.6-4.fc23
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

exo-0.10.6-4.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

exo-0.10.6-4.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.