--nextPart7698121.1FMcyfLHDN Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary-01=_+JzoJJ8e4QbLn9A" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --Boundary-01=_+JzoJJ8e4QbLn9A Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday 22 February 2009, R.F. Pels wrote: > On Sun 22 February 2009 18.38.21 Michael Pyne wrote: > > Now for something completely different but still related... > > > Alexander Larsson is handling the same thing for GNOME, and they have > > changed their file view to only "sniff" for desktop files that are > > executable or in the system directory, and only files with a .desktop > > extension. (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009- > > February/msg00132.html) > > Hmmm. I've been reading this for a bit, and they used the word > 'trusted'. That set my mind in gear as to how we can make it possible to > indeed mark an executable (in whatever form or shape) as trusted. > Something like signing it perhaps? In this case it's merely via where it is installed to I'm sure (I think by= =20 executable he is referring to the .desktop file and not the executable file= =20 directly). Regards, - Michael Pyne --Boundary-01=_+JzoJJ8e4QbLn9A Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
On Sunday 22 February 2009, R.F. Pels wrote: