requiring .desktop files to be executable ?

[Michael Pyne]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009, John Tapsell wrote:
> 2009/2/24 David Faure <faure at kde.org>:
> > There is no migration tool, users are supposed to make executable by hand
> > the few desktop files that they use from $HOME or Desktop... Only they
> > can tell if it's (1) (2) or (3), that's the whole point of the security
> > measure.
>
> From the xdg list, the gnome guys are adding a migration tool.  Might
> be worth you joining and voicing your objections against the idea
> there.

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.

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.

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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