1991 – Some characters can't be used in menu entry names and commands

Some characters can't be used in menu entry names and commands

Status:

CLOSED: FIXED

Priority:
Medium

Severity:
normal

Product:
Xfce4-menueditor

Component:

General

Comments

Description Darren Salt 2006-07-06 01:46:10 CEST

Characters
  & < > " '
can't be used in menu entry names & commands due to escaping problems. I tried to put '>' in the name of a menu entry and ended up with "&amp;lt;" in its place; subsequent editing further escaped that '&'.

Comment 1 Darren Salt 2006-07-06 01:47:16 CEST

Created attachment 647 
Fix the (un)escaping problems.

Comment 2 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2006-07-06 02:06:30 CEST

JF, this look ok to you?

Comment 3 Jean-François Wauthy editbugs

2006-07-06 07:07:08 CEST

i'll take a look when i'll be home

Comment 4 Darren Salt 2006-07-31 23:58:31 CEST

Created attachment 698 
Fix the (un)escaping problems.

Updated for rev. 22562.

Comment 5 Jean-François Wauthy editbugs

2006-08-01 11:33:16 CEST

I kinda forgot about this bug, sorry.

I committed your patch (rev 22605)

Comment 6 Jean-François Wauthy editbugs

2006-10-29 12:42:18 CET

*** Bug 2327 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Jean-François Wauthy editbugs

2006-10-29 12:43:46 CET

*** Bug 2209 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Bug #1991

Reported by:
Darren Salt

Reported on: 2006-07-06
Last modified on: 2009-07-14

Duplicates (2):

2209 Change items in menu editor re-escapes escaped XML entities
2327 Problem with < and > entities in XFCEMenu-files

People

Assignee:
Xfce Bug Triage

CC List:
3 users

Version

Version:
4.2.x

Target Milestone:
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Attachments

Fix the (un)escaping problems. (9.48 KB, patch) 2006-07-06 01:47 CEST , Darren Salt	no flags
Fix the (un)escaping problems. (9.22 KB, patch) 2006-07-31 23:58 CEST , Darren Salt	no flags

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