weird escaping in Recent Files menu description area when a file path has square brackets

[Lx]

Menu > Recent Files shows the full path of the selected item in the description area at the bottom of the menu.

For files with square brackets in the path, the brackets in the full path are URL-escaped. Please see the attached screen shot. The correct path is .../Desktop/Folder [with square brackets]/File.txt.

[Vahan86]

Tested in Cinnamon 3.0.7. The issue is still there.

The issue is not only about [] symbols, it's relevant to {}, <>, "" symbols as well.

[Odyseus]

Hello, everybody.

I'm also seeing this on Cinnamon 3.0.7 (stable and nightly). It seems that this is the product of only un-escaping spaces on the following two lines of the applet code:

Line 1784

this.selectedAppDescription.set_text(button.place.id.slice(16).replace(/%20/g, ' '));

Line 1851

this.selectedAppDescription.set_text(button.file.uri.slice(7).replace(/%20/g, ' '));

To fix it, and as a test, I tried to use decodeURIComponent like this:

this.selectedAppDescription.set_text(decodeURIComponent(button.place.id.slice(16)));

this.selectedAppDescription.set_text(decodeURIComponent(button.file.uri.slice(7)));

With the previous edit, all paths were shown correctly inside the info box. I repeat, this was just a test. I don't know if it is safe to use decodeURIComponent in that place. Maybe not all characters should be un-escaped inside a label? It would be great to have the opinion of one of the developers.