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xfce4-panel package

no display of Launcher description when they have a "&" character

Bug #392816 reported by draco
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Xfce4 Panel
Unknown
Unknown
xfce4-panel (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Lionel Le Folgoc

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xfce4-panel

Hello,

I'm using Xubuntu Jaunty 9.04 x86_64 version.

The bug is in the "Launcher" applet provided by xfce4-panel

draco@08:33:02 [0] <0>:~$ apt-cache policy xfce4-panel
xfce4-panel:
  Installé : 4.6.0-1ubuntu1
  Candidat : 4.6.0-1ubuntu1
 Table de version :
 *** 4.6.0-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I've created a new launcher with the following parameters :
name => GCStar OAV & Dessins Animes
Description => Liste de OAV & Dessins Animés

I was expecting that when I will place the cursor over the icon of the Launcher, I will get a tooltip with the name and the description.
But I'm just getting the icon in the tooltip, without any text, unlike the other launcher created.

If I change the name and the description in order to remove the "&" character like :
name => GCStar OAV et Dessins Animes
Description => Liste de OAV et Dessins Animés
Both are displayed in the tooltip.

If a "&" remains in one of the name or description field of the launcher, only the icon is displayed in the tooltip.

Adding a backslash before the "&" (for escaping it like in shell script), have no effect.

To illustrate the problem, I made some screenshots :
With the bug : http://logicielsutiles.free.fr/xfce4-panel-bug.png
Without the bug : http://logicielsutiles.free.fr/xfce4-panel-no-bug.png

Revision history for this message
Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) wrote :

Confirmed, the "&" character isn't correctly escaped, you can see an error message in $HOME/.xsession-errors:
(xfce4-panel:3925): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup
etc...

In the meantime, use "&amp;" instead of "&", it should correctly display a "&".

Changed in xfce4-panel (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)
Changed in xfce4-panel (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Revision history for this message
draco (draco31-fr) wrote :

Hello Lionel,

Thank you for confirming the bug.

I try to replace the "&" by a "&amp;".
1. The tooltip now appears correctly with a real single "&"
2. The name in the launcher show the "&amp;" as is. So it is not very successfull.

I also made a screenshot : http://logicielsutiles.free.fr/xfce4-panel-workaround.png

Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)
Changed in xfce4-panel (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package xfce4-panel - 4.6.1-3ubuntu2

---------------
xfce4-panel (4.6.1-3ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/patches:
    - 03_escape-tooltip-text.patch: correctly escape special characters
      in the tooltip LP: #392816
    - series: add this patch.

 -- Lionel Le Folgoc <email address hidden> Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:26:17 +0200

Changed in xfce4-panel (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
draco (draco31-fr) wrote :

Thank you very much for that fix.

Did you made the patch during the Paris Ubuntu Bug Jam ?

Revision history for this message
Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) wrote :

Huhu, no, I was too lazy to go.

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