One problem with using the executable bit on .desktop files is that the executable bit could become set without any special action by the user.
For example, a tar file can contain a .desktop file with its executable bit set. tar will honour this bit when it unpacks the archive. (If it didn't, it wouldn't be very useful.) A user might receive a tar file as an attachment, open it (presumably causing it to be unpacked to a temporary directory), double-click the .desktop file -- and thereby give an untrusted program access to their whole user account without warning. Mark _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
