.desktop file security
John Tapsell
johnflux at gmail.com
Tue Feb 24 05:22:55 PST 2009
<snip>
> 7. On initial login make all desktop file launchers in the desktop dir
> as executable.
>
> For 7, maybe we can share what file to use to see if this has been done
> so that this doesn't accidentally happen twice. Say for instance
> "$XDG_DATA_HOME/.converted-launchers".
I prefered mpyne's approach in just assuming all the current .desktops
are bad. Make it only a once-off confirmation to the user to convert.
That should be good enough.
John
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