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