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[Jani Uusitalo <jani@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just a note that this no longer happens now that I'm running 12.04 with
Unity; Unity's run dialog expands tilde correctly. Still broken in Gnome
panel 3.2.0 though.

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Title:
  Run dialog (Alt-F2) fails to expand tilde (~) into home

Status in Desktop panel for GNOME:
  New
Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-panel

  I'm running a Lucid desktop, but with UNE as the interface.

  In UNIX, the tilde character ~ usually refers to the user's home
  directory. However, the run dialog doesn't seem to support this.

  Steps to reproduce:

  1. In a terminal:
  $ echo "hello" > ~/foo
  $ cat ~/foo
  hello

  2. Press Alt+F2 to bring up the run dialog. Enter:
  gedit ~/foo

  Expected result: have ~/foo open in gedit with the content "hello".

  Actual result: a file called foo opens, but it's empty and obviously
  not the one created. From gedit's title I'm guessing the run dialog
  passes ~ as the name of a directory residing within the actual ~,
  user's home.

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