Bug#618752: Fails to open files with colons in it

[Josselin Mouette]

Le vendredi 18 mars 2011 à 09:13 +0100, martin f krafft a écrit : 
> Inkscape cannot open files with colons in it:
> 
>   fishbowl:~/.tmp/cdt.HtrYqA% touch a:file.svg
>   fishbowl:~/.tmp/cdt.HtrYqA% inkscape !$
>   inkscape a:file.svg
>   (inkscape:10661): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: gnome_vfs_uri_is_local: assertion `uri != NULL' failed
>   ** (inkscape:10661): WARNING **: Invalid URI
>   ** (inkscape:10661): WARNING **: Error:  Could not open file 'a:file.svg' with VFS
> 
> The workaround is obviously, to pass ./a:file.svg to inkscape.
> 
> Would it be possible to insert a check before VFS according to the
> following logic?

gnome-vfs is no longer developed upstream so there is no way we will
make such a large-impact change.

Applications should be ported to use GIO instead.

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