Created attachment 157288 [details] Short video of the bug SUMMARY When creating a link to an application from the desktop context menu, selecting the program path from the browse dialogue will produce a mess of escaped quotes in the .desktop file STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Right click on the desktop and navigate to Create New -> Link to Application 2. Click over to the "Application" tab 3. Click the "Browse..." button to open the browse dialogue 4. Navigate to an application with a space character in the path and open it 5. The "Program:" field will now be populated with something like '/path/to/the application/application' 6. Click OK OBSERVED RESULT The created .desktop file will now have a line like Exec=''\\''/path/to/the application/application'\\''' EXPECTED RESULT The line being Exec='/path/to/the application/application' SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 20230313 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.104.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8
Created attachment 157289 [details] actual webm video
Can reproduce the issue.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/merge_requests/1264
Git commit 37481256967b1f0f24e6da8530eacb8bbec758bf by Bharadwaj Raju. Committed on 25/04/2023 at 18:11. Pushed by bharadwaj-raju into branch 'master'. KPropertiesDialog: Don't quote the path unnecessarily We don't need to KShell::quoteArg the executable path, since we use KShell::joinArgs later which takes care of proper quoting. cc @davidedmundson M +1 -2 src/widgets/kpropertiesdialog.cpp https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/commit/37481256967b1f0f24e6da8530eacb8bbec758bf
Git commit bf3c43369b5626740339a62733715ec27104db7e by Bharadwaj Raju. Committed on 25/04/2023 at 18:12. Pushed by bharadwaj-raju into branch 'kf5'. KPropertiesDialog: Don't quote the path unnecessarily We don't need to KShell::quoteArg the executable path, since we use KShell::joinArgs later which takes care of proper quoting. cc @davidedmundson (cherry picked from commit 37481256967b1f0f24e6da8530eacb8bbec758bf) M +1 -2 src/widgets/kpropertiesdialog.cpp https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/commit/bf3c43369b5626740339a62733715ec27104db7e
*** Bug 470038 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***