Bug#388723: gnome-panel: launchers seem to eat '%' in command line

[Loïc Minier]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote:
> Launchers seem to eat '%' in command line.  For example, if I setup a launcher
> for "rdesktop -g 90% x.x.x.x", I'll have to scape the '%' with a backslash.
> 
> I understand that there's a replacement mechanism for strings like "%u" (seen
> this in Firefox launcher), but when '%' isn't followed by a char that gives it a
> particular meaning (such as 'u'), I think it should be left unmodified rather
> than removed.

 No, please use "%%", otherwise we wouldn't be able to add new % macros
 in the future.

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Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>