Re: [rox-devel] Opening files on CD

[Tony H. <h...@re...>]

In <200...@ev...>, Thomas Leonard wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 04:19:10PM +0200, Daniel Poersch wrote:
> > Hi Tony,
> > 
> > > executable, so I thought that was what was putting ROX off. But
> > > even so, I think ROX should open files based on their extension
> > > instead of try to execute them, 
> > 
> > In the ROX Options Dialogue under 'Types' you have a checkbox
> > 'Ignore eXecutable Bit ...', click this. But I agree, this should be
> > the default behavior!

Thanks, but it's weird that it was still refusing to run when I changed
the mount mode, but working from the desktop in both cases.

> Done. However, there's a plan on freedesktop.org about making all
> shell scripts inherit from a single executable type. Then we can
> ignore the executable bit for GIFs, but not for shell scripts, etc :-)

By shell scripts do you also include perl, python (I don't think I'd get
away with leaving that out here ;-)) etc?

What if instead of disabling "Set run action" for executables you allow
"Execute" as a run action?

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