Thank you both for your comments. > @Pedro: I believe zerwas means that when a .jar file is double clicked, > rather than being opened with the archive manager That's exactly what i meant, yes.
@Bruno: The question in your argumentation is how often it is _not_ the case that a .jar file does not include a MANIFEST.MF file. I think that this will almost never happen. All i know is that it is a quite big usability problem as people are most often guided to use a terminal in order to start the application. Regarding security, i don't think this is a big problem because the executable bit is not set by default, just like with .exe files; which are also opened with wine by default in Ubuntu 10.04, if installed. So why don't do the same for .jar files? I have often seen people despair of this issue, you can see several threads about it in the german forums. The process of opening Java applications should be as transparent as possible and i would love to see a progress here for Ubuntu 10.10 already. Bruno, i like your other ideas of a restrictive policy and an installer. But of course this would require much more work than changing the default "open with" from archive manager to JRE. -- .jar file should open with JRE instead of archive manager https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607712 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
