Arguments to Exec program in terminal-based desktop entries are improperly escaped

Version information

Thunar 4.20.1, NixOS

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a file named foo.desktop in one of the search locations for desktop entries, with the following contents (vim can be replaced with any other terminal-based text editor):

[Desktop Entry]
Name=foo
Exec=vim %F
Terminal=true
Type=Application

2. Create a file named a b anywhere.
3. Open a b in Thunar with foo.

Current behavior

Vim is called with the two arguments path/to/a and b.

Expected outcome

It should be called with the single argument path/to/a b.

Additional information

The Exec key in the desktop entry specification.

Since this doesn't happen for desktop entries without Terminal=true, my guess is that Terminal=true causes Thunar to interpret the Exec key as a shell command rather than in the format described by the desktop entry specification; hence in this case the key is incorrectly interpreted as the command vim path/to/a b instead of the list of arguments ["vim", "path/to/a b"].

changed title from Arguments to Exec program in desktop entries improperly escaped to Arguments to Exec program in terminal-based desktop entries improperly escaped

changed title from Arguments to Exec program in terminal-based desktop entries improperly escaped to Arguments to Exec program in terminal-based desktop entries are improperly escaped

Never mind, this is a Ghostty issue: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/2633

closed

added 3. Not Xfce label