mintMenu

MintMenu has problems with Wine-generated application-files due to backslash-escape-handling

Bug #714848 reported by Ulrik Mikaelsson
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Bug Description

As discussed in http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=57536 and http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=76&t=60130, there are problems launching Wine-applications from MintMenu. Launching them from the desktop or panel works fine.

The root cause seems to be the double backslash-escaping done in the launcher-file, so "C:\someprog" is encoded to "C:\\\\someprog", and "my file" is encoded to "my\\ file". It seems mint menu while decoding is just decoding it once, causing failure.

Kazade (kazade)
Changed in mintmenu:
status: New → Confirmed
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MestreLion (mestrelion) wrote :

At least for me, the problem is not in the double backslashes from "wine c:\\windows\\etc", but in the un-quoted last parameter (the .lnk file) and it's (single) escaping backslashes.

So a workaround can be, using this example:

env WINEPREFIX="/home/sb/.wine" wine C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe /Unix /home/sb/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/sb/Start\ Menu/Programs/Microsoft\ Office/Microsoft\ Office\ Word\ 2007.lnk

would turn into this:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/sb/.wine" wine C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe /Unix "/home/sb/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/sb/Start Menu/Programs/Microsoft Office/Microsoft Office Word 2007.lnk"

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Removed by request (removed1836289) wrote :

A bug was filed in wine:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27706

But this, of course, needs to be fixed in mintmenu.

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MestreLion (mestrelion) wrote :

Wine won't fix this, devs already said "This needs to be fixed outside of wine."

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27706#c2

So please, Clem or anyone else in charge of mintMenu, fix this!

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Graeme (gvj) wrote :

In some cases I have been able to get the menu to run by enclosing escaped words in single quotes. e.g. Program\ Files becomes 'Program Files'. This does not work for every case though.

I sure would like to see this one fixed as it is a pain cluttering up my normally clear desktop with start icons.

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