executable .desktop files

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday 22 August 2008 10:46:16 Egon Kocjan wrote:
> > This also includes
> > making sure there's an interpreter already installed in the system: then
> > you can make use of a .desktop or a MIME type to load with a single click
> > (the first step was installing the interpreter).
>
> Yes, if we're talking about document oriented applications. Klik on the
> other hand adds a new type of executables (.cmg) to the system. It seems
> to me, that they were forced into "subverting" the system to provide
> application bundles.

It seems to me that the klik solution is the correct one: you associate a file 
type with an interpreter/loader.

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