From kde-core-devel  Sun Feb 22 02:58:25 2009
From: Alex Merry <kde () randomguy3 ! me ! uk>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:58:25 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [PATCH] .desktop security ++
Message-Id: <200902220258.30619.kde () randomguy3 ! me ! uk>
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On Sunday 22 February 2009 02:43:53 Michael Pyne wrote:
> Finally, I'm still uneasy at having a dialog that can be clicked-thru for
> .desktop files to run them this way.  So what do you think about having
> some kind of minimum-time-to-dialog where if the user tries to click on t=
he
> .desktop file within, say, 10 minutes of creating it that it simply opens
> up its properties dialog?  After 10 minutes the dialog would appear on
> click. Note that this would only happen after creating a .desktop file not
> via Plasma (since that will be fixed) or Link to Application.

I can see your point about the dialog, but I definitely don't like the idea=
 of=20
having the click action of a file changing for no obvious reason after an=20
arbitrary amount of time.

One possibility is to always show the properties dialog, and give the optio=
n=20
of making it executable on the first page of that dialog.

Alex


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Why have I got six monitors?  Because I haven't got room for eight.
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