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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Automatically executing files
From:       Martijn Klingens <mklingens () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2001-05-27 10:09:38
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On Saturday 26 May 2001 21:36, Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] wrote:
> Saturday 26 May 2001 20:52, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> > I have nothing against the idea but we should have a popup dialog which
> > asks the user always !!!
> > No "check this to hide the dialog for next time". Most ("stupid",
> > "beginner") users will click it away first time the see it and later they
> > will never be aware of the danger of executing files from the end of the
> > world.
>
> But having an option for removing this could be in a kcontrol-module
> somewhere... (File associations?)
>
> This would make sure that "stupid beginners" won't get to remove it, but
> more advanced users would.  (a popup box each time you click on an
> executable would get extremely irritating over some time)

I thought we wre only talking about executables that do not have the 'x' bit 
set because they were just downloaded?

The box was just the GUI version of chmod +x if I understood everything 
correctly. After that the file has a proper 'x' bit and thus the dialog won't 
be shown again anyway for that file.

Martijn

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