This sounds a lot like bug 88899. (For netscape, it's just nescape being
dumb, I believe -- don't use Netscape.)
Anyway, bug 88899 was resolved as fixed in CVS HEAD yesterday.
--Ben
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 20:00, jgotts linuxsavvy com wrote:
> In message <y5wn0so94yt fsf icon devel redhat com>, Havoc Pennington writes:
>
> >Shane OConnor - Sun Ireland <Shane Oconnor Sun COM> writes:
>
> >> It's just been noticed that any file that starts with the '%'
> >> character will not open in nautilus, gedit or netscape. As all the
> >> gconf xml files start with the '%' character I was wondering if this
> >> was a deliberate thing?
>
> >No, it's a bug.
>
> Looks like a bug in gnome-vfs:
>
> GnomeVFSResult result;
> GnomeVFSFileInfo *info;
>
> result = gnome_vfs_get_file_info("%gconf.xml", info, (GNOME_VFS_FILE_INFO_GET_MIME_TYPE | GNOME_VFS_FILE_INFO_FOLLOW_LINKS));
>
> fails. gnome_vfs_get_file_info() does two things:
>
> 1) gnome_vfs_uri_new() "succeeds"
> 2) gnome_vfs_get_file_info_uri() fails with GNOME_VFS_ERROR_INVALID_URI.
>
> Anybody who wants to debug this thing would be advised to print out uri->text
> between (1) and (2) above.
>
> John
>
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