Scary .desktop behaviour

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le mardi 04 janvier 2005 à 17:54 +0100, Julien Olivier a écrit :

> Well, Nautilus could prevent the execution of .desktop files that are
> not executable. Of course that means all the .desktop files created the
> normal way (through the "create a new launcher" command in nautilus)
> should automatically be set as executable by Nautilus.

An executable file is something you can run, even out of GNOME, no ?
That's not the case of a .desktop ... 

BTW are the file modes kept over mail ? And what will prevent you to get
an archive with a such file in it ?


> Of course, it would pose the problem of old .desktop files (not
> executable). I guess that if this change is made in Nautilus, all the
> existing .desktop files in the user's folder should be set to executable
> the first time the modified Nautilus is run.

Yes, that would be a real mess ...

Any better idea/suggestion ?


Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher