On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:36:39 +0000, Mike Hearn wrote: > On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:05:32 -0700, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: [...] >> what prevents a malicious .desktop file from using any of the other icons we >> ship and pretending to be something else? looking through just the >> Application icons i have on disk here, any number of them could be used to >> pretend to be a movie, an mp3, a word processing document ..... > > Well, nothing I guess, but if it looks like an application icon > at least the user might expect it to do run something when clicked. MIME > type icons are usually recognisable in most icon themes by having a paper > background, it's a simple enough heuristic. > > I'm open to alternative ideas though. An emblem for executable .desktop > files? That'd kinda suck though, I have a bunch of launchers on my desktop > and don't really want them cluttered up with some intrusive overlay. I > already know they're executable!
ROX-Filer shows .desktop files (and anything else it will execute if clicked) with a different text colour, but leaves the icon alone. -- Dr Thomas Leonard http://rox.sourceforge.net GPG: 9242 9807 C985 3C07 44A6 8B9A AE07 8280 59A5 3CC1 _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
