Adam Lydick wrote: > Fantastic idea! (as others have said) Have you filed a bug against > nautilus (and other shells) to this effect? You might also file one at > the various upstream bug tracking systems as well. I'm glad you like it (I do too), but it wasn't my idea. Search the ubuntu-devel list archives at lists.ubuntu.com for the "Scary .desktop behaviour" thread. > > I was pondering complicated solutions with alternate stream hacks (like > XPSP2 uses), but your suggestion is much simpler and would require > minimal changes to the system. > > On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 06:52 -0500, David Mandelberg wrote: > [snip] > > >>I'm just suggesting that it should be harder for them to shoot themselves in the >>foot i.e. by making .desktop's have the x bit before they can be launched. > > > [snip] > -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GAT/CM$/CS>$/CC/IT$/M/S/O/U dpu s+:++ !a C++$>C+++$ UB+++>++++$L++++$*-- P+>++$ L+++(++++)$ E-(---) W+++>$ N(+) o? K- w--(---) O? M V? PS++@ PE-@ Y+@ PGP++(+++)>$ t? 5? X? R tv--(-) b++(+++)@ DI? D? G e->++++ h* r? z* ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ David Mandelberg mandelbergd@eth0.is-a-geek.org
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