can't add magnet links - transmission-qt.desktop issue

[zmeYski]

Hi,

using transmission-qt 2.51 under KDE 4.8.3 I can't add magnet links from Firefox. The browser correctly suggests transmission-qt as an application to open the magnet link with but choosing it opens a new instance of transmission-qt without adding anything to it. A new instance is started even if transmission-qt was already running. The problem seems to be in transmission-qt.desktop where we have:

Exec=transmission-qt %F

should be:

Exec=transmission-qt %U

with this change things work just fine. The GTK client uses the same option %U. Also the desktop file spec mentions that %U is the correct option for programs that can handle URL's

Regards

[gabrielcossette]

I confirm this bug is still present in version 2.73.

Thanks!

[stuart]

I've attached a patch for trunk/qt/transmission-qt.desktop in the source tree.

Summary:

--- a/qt/transmission-qt.desktop
+++ b/qt/transmission-qt.desktop
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Name=Qtransmission Bittorrent Client
 GenericName=BitTorrent Client
 Comment=Download and share files over BitTorrent
-Exec=transmission-qt %F
+Exec=transmission-qt %U
 Icon=transmission-qt
 Terminal=false
 Type=Application

[jordan]

Stuart you used %Q and the OP suggested %U. Which is correct?

[stuart]

%U is correct. I'm not sure how that %Q typo got there, I thought I made the patch from my live fixed file.

I've edited the comment and patch accordingly.

[jordan]

Fixed in r13679