Permission checking dialog leaves users confused about what to do next

[Scott Ritchie]

Binary package hint: wine1.2

I've received many reports now about the new permissions dialog from users. It's simply too confusing and unhelpful - most think it's an error message and that Wine simply won't work with the executable they downloaded.

It needs to be changed to make it more obvious that it's not running intentionally and that the user can fix this if they wanted to run the program.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 30 13:19:52 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100224.1)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: wine1.2 1.1.41-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: wine1.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86_64

[Eduardo Cintas (eduardocintas78)]

In my box wine closes silently, I don't see any dialog. But if I set executable flag to the exe wine works.

[Michael Shallcrass (mshallcrass)]

Do you mean this error?

"The file '/media/Orange Box/Setup.exe' is not marked as executable. If this was downloaded or copied form an untrusted source, it may be dangerous to run. For more details, read about the executable bit."

Note the spelling error "If this was downloaded or copied form an untrusted source" should be 'from'

[Eduardo Cintas (eduardocintas78)]

Michael: I don't see any error wine just stay 20-30 secs on taskbar and then closes quiet. But if I set executable bit, wine run normaly.

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

Yes Michael that's the error. And not showing at all is a similarly bad problem.

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Scott Ritchie:

Seems like a wishlist. Should be marked as such.

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

It's a serious problem rusivi2 as it's a regression over older Ubuntus and makes the software unusable.

[Charles Plessy (plessy)]

Closing as this bug was solved in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/506702

[dino99 (9d9)]

this is no more a supported version