requiring .desktop files to be executable ?

[John Tapsell]

2009/2/18 Andras Mantia <amantia at kde.org>:
> On Wednesday 18 February 2009, John Tapsell wrote:
>> Yes - I wanted to be double sure.  Sometimes people install to
>> non-standard paths (/opt for example.  Typical for universities to
>> install KDE here) and sometimes they might not be owned by root.
>
> That IS a standard path, $KDEDIRS/share/bla-bla.
>
> Andras

Hmm yes true.

So..  don't suppose I can persuade anyone to actually do the work ? :)
 I have so little time, and it would look good if we implement a
solution sooner rather than later.