Hello, I noticed a bug in my application based on a template from KDevelop. When launched from Docky, single quotes are displayed around the application name in the title bar. After experimenting with the .desktop file, I found it is due to the quotes around the %c:
<appname> %i -caption "%c" I removed the quotes, and the app worked fine, with the name still being passed as one argument, even though it had a space in it. I checked some other KDE applications to see if this was just a bug in the KDevelop template, and found that Dolphin also has quotes, and when launched from Docky, draws single quotes around the name in the title bar. According to the desktop entry spec (http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s06.html): "Field codes must not be used inside a quoted argument, the result of field code expansion inside a quoted argument is undefined." I reported this as a bug in Dolphin, but was told that all KDE apps do this (KDE Bug #318593). So, why do all the .desktop files for KDE put quotes around the app name, when they don't do anything, since the name is passed as one argument, even if it has a space in it? If I understand the part I quoted from the spec, this is incorrect, as it results in undefined behavior (and not so good behavior, as in the case of Docky). Is my understanding of this correct, and this is a bug in all .desktop files that do this? -- Michael Spencer https://iBeliever.github.io
