I cannot reproduce this on dapper with 2.14.2-0ubuntu2. Taking a look at the sources (src/fr-process.c) , one can see that g_spawn_async_with_pipes() is called with a NULL envp parameter, which means that the spawned process should inherit the parent's PATH. IMHO this should be closed.
-- Fails to pass PATH to sub-processes https://launchpad.net/bugs/14991 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs