I understand the desire to have application providers use a supported packaging method, however contacting one application provider and requesting that application provider to distribute their software by packaging it differently will only improve the use-case for this one scenario. The original feedback was intended to point out the general use-case of running script files (.RUN files in the example) from the GUI, when the script requires administrator rights to function properly. Effectively just preceding the script with sudo when running it from the terminal; but this is not a sequence that is intuitive to a novice user, especially a novice user who is comfortable in a GUI but not at the command line. For users of a current Windows OS, this is as easy as 'right-click - run as administrator'. And even experienced Windows users are novice users when they first try Linux, so why not make the OS transition process a little bit easier for more users?
-- Usability: .RUN files, terminal, and privileges https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/505371 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
