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I was just learning how to make new launcher icons and I encountered a small annoyance with the spaces in filenames.

[Desktop Entry]
Comment=This is my comment
Exec=/home/alex/**New\ folder**/exec.sh
Icon=/home/alex/**New folder**/icon.png

And I noticed this. As you can see on Exec filepath you need to put " \ " before a space, while for Icon it doesn't need and it doesn't even work if you insert it. Why is that?

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