svn commit: r303278 - in head/games/simutrans: . files

[Chris Rees]

On 28/08/2012, Guido Falsi <madpilot at 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

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