Hi,
For me this is a bug, the fix should be applied to the original package,
so 13.04 and future ubuntu installations will not suffer from this.
There is no sense with behavior 'View executable text files' selected by
default for a regular user.
Shellscripts are commonly used to launch other executables, so a regular user
will expect that double clicking on a given application executable (being
script or ELF) will launch an application instead of gedit showing 'strange
programming mambojambo'.
I will give you an example: here in Portugal, we pay our taxes using an
official application that is downloaded from a goverment site.
The application is developed in java and it worked flawlessly with ubuntu. The
application is packaged inside a special script file that will auto-extract the
application content to a selected installation dir (by the way the application
launcher is also a shellscript). So a regular user when double clicking this
script, a gigant script will be opened in gedit! This really doesn't make any
sense from a regular user prespective.
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Executable files do not launch in 13.04
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