This affects me as well. It's almost impossible to tell the difference between a bug and a feature these days so you did the right thing raising a bug report!
It appears that the developers have been reviewing the actions taken if the "execute bit" isn't set. So you can no longer run programs from a CD or programs marked as untrusted. The work around for now is to use a terminal, navigate to the folder holding your program, use ls -l to confirm the 'x' bit is not set and then use "chmod +x program.name" to set the bit. The program should run. (It does for me.) This doesn't work for CD's which are read only. I wouldn't expect a team who ignores all the pleas not to move the maximize, minimize, close buttons to the left will care if we don't like this feature/bug so I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for a solution. Fortunately there are enough people out there who like Ubuntu enough to search for work-arounds for the unexplained vagaries of the developers so google your feature-bugs to find a fix. -- Can't launch untrusted app-launchers (.desktop) in GNOME https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/572918 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
