Kmenuedit entry has a malformed URL

newbiesforever · 04-16-2009, 05:21 PM

One of my K menu entries, made with Kmenuedit, is "konqueror media:/sda3/data/Written Work". It doesn't work, with Konqueror opening but then saying "Malformed URL." What's wrong with it? Especially since I made it by copying and pasting "media:/sda3/data/Written Work" from the URL bar in a Konqueror window.

Spudley · 04-17-2009, 08:17 AM

Almost certainly caused by the space in the name.

If you have spaces in your filenames, you need to reference them with quotes around the name, thus:

Code:

konqueror 'media:/sda3/data/Written Work'

Hope that helps

David the H. · 04-17-2009, 08:38 AM

Spaces in filenames on *nix systems can cause no end to headaches. The file systems can handle them, but most of the shells and applications that work with the names view spaces as delimiters. Quoting the names or escaping the spaces generally works, but not always, especially in shell scripting.

So you'd do well to learn to avoid using spaces in your filenames. Replacing them with underscores is the most common workaround.

newbiesforever · 04-17-2009, 12:55 PM

The quotation marks did it. Thank you.