Can't open files with spaces from gui applications

When I try to open a file or directory from say qbittorrent or clementine in xfce, I get the message:
"Failed to open URI "file:///somewhere/filename%20with%20spaces".
Googling told me this problem was due to passing a "%U" instead of a "%F" somwhere, but I don't know where to change this.

I don't use any DE or those kinds of gui tools, but the "%U" instead of an "%F" issue would be in the .desktop files. There are systemwide .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/ and you can override these with your own customized versions in ~/.local/share/applications/
So a workaround at least would be to copy the relevant desktop files from the system-wide folder to your user's folder and edit them appropriately changing %U to%F.

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