On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 13:14:51 +0000, Mike Hearn wrote: > On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 10:56:00 +0000, Thomas Leonard wrote: >> ROX-Filer shows .desktop files (and anything else it will execute if >> clicked) with a different text colour, but leaves the icon alone. > > That's the sort of thing we want, I think, but does it really work? Have > you tested it on people to see if they are suspicious of a different > coloured thing that looks like a jpeg image file?
Back before MIME-type inheritance let us work out what MIME types can never be executed, we used to try to execute anything with the X bit set (even JPEGs ;-). I would certainly notice if one was on a DOS format media with the X bit set before clicking on it. Whether normal users would notice (or care) I don't know. Also, it probably helps that ROX users are used to using the filer to run programs (so they get used to the colour scheme). If you normally run programs using a start menu, you might notice something was different, but not know what it meant. -- 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
