Sebastien, You are right! , the description is misleading. I simply assumed the reporter was commenting about .txt files from windows partitions or external ntfs/vfat volumes which are mounted with exec priv by default !
As i commented earlier , changing the default is not the right way to do this. Marcus' patch will cause more confusion to new users, who are used to double-click to open programs and if the executables pop-up in gedit this will only confuse the user. Because that change affects all file types. not only .txt , .sh , ... So this will render all executables unusable for new users and force them to use the terminal , with is not ideal Also, Rick Spencer pointed out on the irc , this maybe a bigger task than a papercut. :( Marcus, How is Nautilus not prompting when video and picture formats have exec priv? Aren't those having exclusions? Is it possible to add similar exclusions to .txt files mounted on vfat drives? or copied from vfat drives? Would that be simple to fix? Anyone has any idea why vfat/ntfs drives are not mounted as noexec ? Wouldnt it be simpler if we change this behavior? -- Nautilus *.txt file behaviour https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/425166 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
