https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374572

--- Comment #7 from Elvis Angelaccio <elvis.angelac...@kde.org> ---
(In reply to Fabian Vogt from comment #6)
> (In reply to Elvis Angelaccio from comment #5)
> > (In reply to Fabian Vogt from comment #4)
> > > Thanks for fixing!
> > > 
> > > However, I'm not sure whether this is the right approach.
> > > What about a dialog that tells the user that it is an executable file and 
> > > it
> > > should only be run if it's trusted and also that it may need the archive 
> > > to
> > > be extraced somewhere? It's the approach that's used on Windows as well.
> > 
> > Well we could do that, but only on master. Stable branches can do with my
> > fix above.
> 
> I haven't tested the fix yet, what happens now if the user clicks on the
> file,
> is it opened in a text editor, so as-if the file weren't executable?

Yes.

> 
> Couldn't you test the executable flag between extraction and execution?

Yes, that's what I meant. Check the flag and show the dialog if necessary.

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