On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote :
>On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 02:13:05PM +0100, David Faure wrote:
>
>Hi,
>=20
>> Hmm, does this mean that KRun can't handle netscape either ?
>
>klipper's command for netscape is something like
>netscape -no-about-splash -remote "openURL(http://www.kde.org/,new-windo=
w)"
>If you put ' around the url, then netscape tries to open
>'http://....' which doesn't work.

Ok, it's not like a normal argument to an app's cmdline, then.
Then you're right, the shellQuote solution doesn't fit :(
(And we have a problem if someone tries to create a .desktop file
for netscape using the openURL command above - but we have konqueror
fortunately :)

>> This is strange, I thought the quotes were removed by the shell...=20
>
>Not if they are quoted, I guess.

Yup. You are right, you need to revert to some hand-made escaping.

--=20
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/
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