Bug#796946: mate-desktop-environment: MATE knows not how to run a binary file

[Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>]

Control: reassing -1 caja

On  Mi 26 Aug 2015 03:25:49 CEST, Richard Jasmin wrote:

> Package: mate-desktop-environment
> Version: 1.8.0+9
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
>
> If you make a shell script or text file executable you get a dialog asking if
> you want to run or open the file.
>
> But what I dont get is what happens on ELF binaries.MATE just simply wants to
> "open with" nothing at all or ask me what to "open with". Im no UI  
> expert here
> but cant we just shell exec with "exec <filename>" like "start <filename>"
> works on windows?
>
> Why should I have to open a shell to run some Linux native binary app? This
> makes no sense to me.
>
> Go browse under /usr/bin in the UI and try this one. :-)

Reassigning this one to caja, MATE's file browser.

Mike
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