On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 16:49 -0600, Richard Atcheson 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
On Sunday 28 February 2010 09:09:23 Carlos E. R. wrote: 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 ???.
The solution makes perfect sense. Just like the are-your-sure dialog when performing a delete operation.
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.
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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org