Package: mate-desktop-environment
Version: 1.6.0.2+8.jessie
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,


   * What led up to the situation?

I have a small shell script to which I attempt to assign a hotkey in MATE's
'Keyboard Shortcuts' dialog.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

Assigned the script under 'Custom Shortcuts' in the aforementioned dialog to
Primary-Shift-N, and tried to run the script.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

Alert window popped up with the following message:

"Error while trying to run (gnome-terminal -e sh /home/me/my-script.sh)
which is linked to the key (<Primary><Shift>n)"

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

I had expected the script to work, as it works when invoked from terminal, from
a file-manager window, or via Gnome Do.
If I were expecting an error message, I would instead have expected one
pertaining to a specific error, not just informing me that there was one. Since
it's not always possible to receive a specific error message or code in all
possible situations, I feel that the alert window should inform users as to the
location of an error log to check.

Thanks for all you do, and I hope this is helpful.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), 
(500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mate-desktop-environment depends on:
ii  atril                                        1.6.0-2+8.jessie
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.18.0-1
ii  desktop-base                                 7.0.3
ii  engrampa                                     1.6.0-1
ii  eom                                          1.6.0-3
ii  ffmpegthumbnailer                            2.0.8-2
ii  mate-applets                                 1.6.1-1
ii  mate-calc                                    1.6.0-1
ii  mate-core                                    1.6.0.2+8.jessie
ii  mate-media                                   1.6.0-2
ii  mate-power-manager                           1.6.1-1
ii  mate-screensaver                             1.6.0-1
ii  mate-system-monitor                          1.6.0-1
ii  mate-themes                                  1.6.1-1~mate1+8.jessie
ii  mate-utils                                   1.6.0-1
ii  pluma                                        1.6.0-2

mate-desktop-environment recommends no packages.

mate-desktop-environment suggests no packages.

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