On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 14:04 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Its true that all of these *could* and *should* mark the file as > > executable, however since we never demanded that before this would be a > > regression for many users. Both for old created desktop files and for > > new ones created by non-updated apps. > > Why is this a problem ? > > - You can chmod the existing desktop files on an upgrade
Certainly we should do this. Do we have any standard place for upgrades like this during login? > - If you meet one that appears not to have been updated you can ask the > user/fix it with their permission You mean describing how to do this manually in the dialog rather than asking the user if they want to do this? I don't see how this is an increase in security, it seems just to be a larger amount of manual work for something that can happen in perfectly legitime cases. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list