Re: Problem with spaces in filenames

[Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn ant uni-bremen de>]

Julien Olivier wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 12:04, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
>
> > Hi list,
> >
> > i am not sure if this is a problem with nautilus or with GNOME.
> > I created a Launcher in my panel with
> >
> > 	gimp "%f"
> >
> > as command line. When i drag an image file from a nautilus window onto 
> > this launcher, gimp opens the image. However, if the file filename 
> > contains spaces, like "picture a.jpg", the launcher is passed 
> > "picture%20a.jpg" which, of course, gimp cannot open.
> >
> > How do i get this working? (Gnome 2.4)
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
>
>
> I've tested this on Nautilus-2.6 and it works perfectly. Now, maybe this
> is a bug in Nautilus-2.4. Maybe you could try using gimp %f instead of
> gimp "%f" ?

That does not make any difference.
> Anyway, I think it is smarter to use gimp-remote -n %f as it will avoid
> re-launching GIMP if it is already running.
I used gimp simply as an example. Actually i want to resize images with 
ImageMagick simply by dropping them onto the launcher.

Ok, i will wait then until Nautilus-2.6 becomes stable on getoo.

- Heinrich