Scary .desktop behaviour

[josé ángel madrid gómez]

Nathan R. Valentine wrote:
>>Exactly, and they're not automatically made executable when saved.  The
>>user has to explicitly make them executable, and thus be pretty aware
>>that what they're about to do could be bad.
> 
> 
> Not true in my case. I downloaded the attached file, saved it to a tmp
> folder, browsed to the saved location using Nautilus, and double-clicked
> the file. It ran the command in the Exec parameter with no need to make
> the file executable or any other tinkering. This is very similar to the
> various extension hiding PIF/etc. file problems with explorer.exe on
> Windows. 
> 
> This needs to be fixed. 
> 
> I'm not a Nautilus expert but I'm surprised that the default action for
> non-executables without the execute bit set, including scripts, is not
> "Open" with a text editor. That would seem to be the logical (most
> secure) default setting. 
> 
> 
As far as I know, you can choose the default action to script files.
This is the menu path {directly translated by me from spanish}:
System>Preferences>File administration>Behaviour...

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