gtk applications treat filenames with a colon as a url

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Issue

Under certain conditions, Gnome applications fail to open files that contain a colon (:) in their filename, for example:

[user@host ~] $ eog my:image.png

Will open a window, but will display a message, saying that my:///image.png cannot be opened.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and later
  • Gnome Desktop Environment 2.x and later

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