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