Installing executable files

[David Faure]

On Thursday 14 October 2010, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:
> David Faure wrote:
> > Recently I made all application .desktop files executable in trunk.
> > But at install time, the permissions are not copied over, so the files
> > don't end up being executable.
> 
> Why system-wide .desktop files should have executable bit? I thought that
> this bit is not required for files in XDG_DATA_DIRS.

Right. But the application and klauncher could have a different XDG_DATA_DIRS 
setting (when running an app from another kde prefix), and then you get a false 
warning:
http://markmail.org/message/4p3krovtnzwx35zd

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org).