(In reply to Pjotr from comment #14) > Speaking strictly from a user's point of view: it just makes no sense, to > issue a warning and require the granting of executability rights, for the > innocent act of launching an application by clicking a desktop shortcut. No > sense at all.... > > This is needlessly confusing for beginners and very user-unfriendly. As far > as I know, Xfce is the only desktop environment that does this. > > It's no show-stopper bug of course, but it displeases some new Xfce users to > the point that they stop seeing Xfce as a good alternative for other > desktops. > > Please remove this nasty "paper cut" from Xfce....
Please don't copy and paste comments across bug reports, and please make sure you're up-to-date with the discussion :-) The current proposal I made is that there will never be any warning on the Desktop, unless it is also used as a Downloads directory (in which case no difference can be made between Downloads and app shortcuts. Warning about the risks inherent to the execution of unknown software is certainly not a pleasant experience, but it remains a necessary first step to help our users build the right mental models of malware and adopt safer practices. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1327791 Title: Security warning about just created Xubuntu desktop shortcut To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunar/+bug/1327791/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
