Hi, On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 07:40:12PM +0100, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > Le mardi 12 janvier 2010 à 10:19 -0800, Kees Cook a écrit : > > Hello! > > > > As part of implementing the "Execute-Permission Bit Required" policy[1], I > > need to make changes to a few MIME handlers and to the nautilus .desktop > > file handler. > > > > The main issue is that of the error message to produce, and I'm hoping to > > get some input for that from the Desktop team. > Maybe you already know about it, but here's the thread in > desktop-devel-list where it was decided how to phrase the dialog shown > when .desktop files don't have +x set: > http://www.mail-archive.com/desktop-devel-l...@gnome.org/msg15440.html > > There, the message was: > > The application launcher %s is not marked as trusted. If this > > application launchers source is unknown to you then it may be unsafe to > > launch. > > Sure, it doesn't do what you want, since it provides that bad button > "Launch Anyway" (which was there for transition mainly). Anyway, that > might be an inspiration, you could just remove the button.
Right, this is about strengthening that message further. I've already uploaded a patch to remove the other buttons. :) Thanks, -Kees -- Kees Cook Ubuntu Security Team -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop