Re: Help with strings for solution for desktop file virus problem

2009-02-21 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 11:44 -0500, Dan Winship wrote: Alexander Larsson wrote: So, there has been a lot of attention on the internets recently about the the desktop file virus issue. I think its all pretty overblown, and any solution we have that doesn't completely neuter the feature

Re: Help with strings for solution for desktop file virus problem

2009-02-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 20 février 2009 à 15:21 +, Alexander Larsson a écrit : However, I do agree that it is a bit bad that you can be a target of an attack like this without really being able to realize it. So, my current plan is two-fold: 1) Only detect desktop files with .desktop extension. I.e.

bump up version for external dependency on clutter

2009-02-21 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi everyone; yesterday I did a release of the stable branch of Clutter and Clutter-GTK. there are a lot of bug fixes, including a crasher that affected gnome-games, so I'd like to request a bump for the minimum required version of Clutter 0.8 from 0.8.2 to 0.8.8 and for Clutter-GTK from 0.8.2 to

Re: Help with strings for solution for desktop file virus problem

2009-02-21 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 13:08 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 20 février 2009 à 15:21 +, Alexander Larsson a écrit : However, I do agree that it is a bit bad that you can be a target of an attack like this without really being able to realize it. So, my current plan is

Re: Help with strings for solution for desktop file virus problem

2009-02-21 Thread Alan Cox
Its true that all of these *could* and *should* mark the file as executable, however since we never demanded that before this would be a regression for many users. Both for old created desktop files and for new ones created by non-updated apps. Why is this a problem ? - You can chmod the