Scary .desktop behaviour

[Sivan Green]

On 19:13, Tue 04 Jan 05, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> 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 ?

Maybe add / modify the makefiles to chmod all the desktop
files? :-)

Sivan