[Jaunty] Desktop launchers created with wrong permissions set

[nyarnon]

When I create a launcher on the desktop it will not be marked as a executable thus triggering the message if you want it to mark as one when you try to execute it.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

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Thanks!

[khoma (khoma1985)]

I do confirm the bug. When creating a new launcher on the desktop it is not marked as executable, consequently it triggers the message of warning and it doesn't show the icon.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

What warning does it show? Desktop files don't need to be executable AFAIK. If it is a warning about the launcher being untrusted, and gives you the option to mark it as trusted then that is a design decision and is expected behaviour.

[Tuomas Aavikko (taavikko)]

Discussion on ubuntuforums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1087697

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

The behaviour described in the forum thread isn't a problem with creating launchers - it is the expected behaviour of Nautilus due to a recent patch meaning that you have to manually mark new launchers you create as being trusted.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Ok, I see now. Nautilus does require the desktop files to be executable now, as a fix to bug 153438. So perhaps newly created launchers should be executable by default, or would that defeat the original reason for this change?

[nyarnon (cabal)]

Thats the issue I will be more detailed next time sorry. And if it would defeat the original purpose I think we have a problem. It's not very logicaly to John Doe to create a launcher and then not being able to see f.i. the icone going with it. That already might prevent him from even to try to run it. Thats what started the thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1087697 and see where it brought us.

[nyarnon (cabal)]

How about adding a dialog during creation asking for confirmation to make it executable. That would clearify things.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

I'm not sure how a confirmation dialog when you create it is better than a confirmation dialog when you launch it really. If the Nautilus change was purely to protect people inadvertently downloading malicious desktop files, then I think that newly created desktop files should just be created with the executable it set.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

I've added an upstream task, with the intention of forwarding this upstream when I get a few minutes spare this afternoon. Perhaps someone here would like to send it to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ ?

[nyarnon (cabal)]

@Chris

A confirmation dialog would clarify that the launcher isn't more then a plain textfile untill it gets executable rights and therefore explain why it wouldn't show an icon. As running a launcher it the default choice for a user they would certainly confirm the question and thus not be confronted with an iconless something on their desktop. And what better time to make that choise on creation?

Ofcourse I rather see it just set the right permissions by itself.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

upstream confirmed that's a gnome-panel bug and should be opened on bugzilla as 2.26 blocker

[kindofabuzz (kindofabuzz)]

Yeah this is a very annoying bug.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-panel - 1:2.26.0-0ubuntu1

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gnome-panel (1:2.26.0-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Mark desktop files as trusted when it makes sense (lp: #340425)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:13:51 +0100