Scary .desktop behaviour

Jeff Waugh jeff.waugh at canonical.com
Wed Jan 5 15:01:22 CST 2005


<quote who="Matt Zimmerman">

> The only problem I can see would be if the file in nautilus doesn't "look
> like" something which would be executed if the user activates it, and yet
> it is.

See attached .desktop file (put it on your desktop).

> Does nautilus even have a consistent way to represent files which are
> executable?

No. Potential solution: It could plop an emblem onto every executable file.

I'll take this upstream, there is a problem here. Thanks. :-)

- Jeff

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[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Trash
Type=Application
Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-calculator
TryExec=
Icon=gnome-fs-trash-full
X-GNOME-DocPath=
Name=Trash


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