On Sunday 28 February 2010 03:59:54 Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

??? I use GNOME all day, every day, and I don't recall ever seeing an "Untrusted Application" dialog.

Are you double-clicking on program files [on the desktop, in nautilus, etc...] that do not have execute permissions?

When I switched over to Gnome it came up with the several apps I had on the desktop, for example, wifi-radar. When I double click on that icon, a dialog comes up saying Untrusted Application Launcher, the app launcher has not been marked as trusted, and asks if I want to launch anyway or cancel. Clicking launch anyway, it goes ahead and runs.

Or are you executing applications off a file-system mounted with the "user" options?

Nope, they;re in /bin or /usr/sbin. This is a fairly standard installation with everything but home on one partition and home on it's separate partition. No real magic involved. I did a bunch of googling and found the same question but no answers. Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sunday 28 February 2010 09:09:23 Carlos E. R. wrote:

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I'm running opensuse 11.2 and have fired up Gnome which so far beats KDE4. It does have one annoying 'feature' and that is a popup that announces you have tried to start an Untrusted Application. Does anyone know how to defeat that rascal?

That's new to me, too...

I found the answer at http://www.algorithm- forge.com/techblog/2009/07/executable-application-launcher/ It's a new feature. It's supposed to keep the user from starting a bad app on the desktop. Looks like there's no more drag n drop to create a link on the desktop either. Now you copy the app to the desktop or create the application launcher at the desktop. Course the idea had a little merit but the solution is silly. Instead of clicking once on a potentially bad app, you now must do it twice. Seems to be more of a pissoff factor to me. I guess the assumption is the user is particularly stupid. More Linux Vista ???. If the app is owned by root, the desktop link, which is not a link now, execution bit is not checked. So you do the "Launch anyway". The solution is to become root and set the "link;s" permissions to executable and the annoyance goes away. So I guess the bottom line is what use to be a link to an executable, is now a copy of the executable on the desktop and is called an Application Launcher? I checked Patricks solution and mine was already set at easy. Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Monday 01 March 2010 05:13:51 Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

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Course the idea had a little merit but the solution is silly. Instead of clicking once on a potentially bad app, you now must do it twice. Seems to be more of a pissoff factor to me. I guess the assumption is the user is particularly stupid. More Linux Vista ???.

The solution makes perfect sense. Just like the are-your-sure dialog when performing a delete operation.

It only makes sense if once you say go ahead and it doesnt pop up again. At a minimum It needs to offer the option of the little check box to skip the dialog the next time you start the same app.

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If the app is owned by root, the desktop link, which is not a link now, execution bit is not checked. So you do the "Launch anyway". The solution is to become root and set the "link;s" permissions to executable and the annoyance goes away.

You're assuming that on a given workstation a user can become root.

How many users cannot become root on their own machine? And under the new scheme, how do you become root just to change the permissions? If I open a file manager as super user and try to change the permissions, I'm not allowed to. Bad old Konqueror which allowed such a thing is gone and Dolphin cant even start kwrite as root.

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So I guess the bottom line is what use to be a link to an executable, is now a copy of the executable on the desktop and is called an Application Launcher? I checked Patricks solution and mine was already set at easy.

I double check my YaST. I have the "easy" setting selected, and I do not experience the issue you describe.

Mine is still doing the same thing after doing all the finger magic. I tried setting and resetting the "easy" setting and nothing changes. I've booted several times and even ran Vista to no avail. I think we're going to have chicken tonite so I can have some chicken bones to hang above the computer. That use to be our last resort when I did this stuff for a living. Maybe it'll work here. I've been traveling and unable to get on the net so perhaps something has been fixed. Will try another update and see what happens. Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org