Interoperability problems with executable desktop files

Submitted by Guido Berhoerster

Assigned to Jannis Pohlmann

Link to original bug (#9934)

Description

With Thunar 1.6 (bug #5012) there is a big security warning when trying to run .desktop files which do not have the executable bit set. This is currently not the case for .desktop files created by a user via exo-desktop-item-edit leading to reports like https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801326.

While exo-desktop-item-edit could be changed to set the executable bit by default, there does not seem to be a consensus among different DEs about this behavior so it is still problematic for .desktop files created by another DE, another editor or some installation script. I wonder if there isn't better solution to this or if we can at least get some common way of handling this among DEs?

Version: 1.6.0