<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Droid Sans Mono'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Tuesday 24 February 2009, John Tapsell wrote:<br>
> 2009/2/24 David Faure <faure@kde.org>:<br>
> > There is no migration tool, users are supposed to make executable by hand<br>
> > the few desktop files that they use from $HOME or Desktop... Only they<br>
> > can tell if it's (1) (2) or (3), that's the whole point of the security<br>
> > measure.<br>
><br>
> From the xdg list, the gnome guys are adding a migration tool. Might<br>
> be worth you joining and voicing your objections against the idea<br>
> there.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Or at the very least against the idea of doing it automatically without user intervention. It's a different thing if the user asks for it.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>It still doesn't guarantee every .desktop file that users need will be found though, so I believe some kind of dialog will be necessary. I know they have code now to perform the permissions upgrade so the dialog itself shouldn't be too hard I would imagine.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Regards,<br>
- Michael Pyne</p></body></html>