Currently when people download executables from the network, say for
installing software, they can not execute them because the execute bit
is not set.
So typical installation instructions for a Unix application look like
this:
1. Click on this link to download.
2. Run a shell
3. type chmod +x file
4. Run
Ideally, we want to avoid this problem in GNOME, and we just want
executables to just work. As they do in Windows.
So I would like to suggest that we set this bit manually if the user
double clicks on a file that happens to have an a.out or ELF
signature. Maybe we could popup a warning or something, but the
result should be that files downloaded in this way would just work.
Comments?
Miguel.
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