Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:08:53 +0100 From: Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org> To: Guido Falsi <madpilot@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org>, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r303278 - in head/games/simutrans: . files Message-ID: <CADLo838FWg2NH7OkiaRDuqFnWgMRev9ZVbuO%2ByVu9sv%2B8bbJow@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <503D1845.4090509@FreeBSD.org> References: <201208281203.q7SC3jU7063943@svn.freebsd.org> <20120828145248.GC87067@FreeBSD.org> <503D1845.4090509@FreeBSD.org>
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On 28/08/2012, Guido Falsi <madpilot@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 08/28/12 16:52, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:03:45PM +0000, Guido Falsi wrote: >>> New Revision: 303278 >>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/303278 >>> >>> - ${INSTALL_DATA} ${FILESDIR}/simutrans.desktop \ >>> + ${INSTALL_SCRIPT} ${FILESDIR}/simutrans.desktop \ >>> ${PREFIX}/share/applications/simutrans.desktop >> >> Why does .desktop file have to have +x bit? >> > > Good catch! :) > > I contacted the maintainer who answered to danfe too. This followup is > to keep others informed. > > The maintainer justified this, after I contacted him pointing me here: > > http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-freebsd/2012-June/013233.html > > in his own words: > > Basically KDE counts .desktop files without +x in the user's own desktop > as dangerous and warns about this. If a user drags an icon from system > wide menu to the desktop it gets copied with same permissions(no +x). > KDE people seem to think this is useful to protect from downloaded files. > > Maintainer is ok to modify the port back to installing without +x if > that's the consensus. I also have no problem modifying it if having > .desktop files with +x is a problem. > > Perhaps someone more knowledgeable about KDE than me could also comment > on this. I'm not quite sure that it's a problem-- Alexey has noticed that it's unusual to have +X files... but you've provided a perfectly adequate explanation :) Alexey, does this explanation satisfy you too? Chris -- Chris Rees | FreeBSD Developer crees@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~crees
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