This was an intentional change done by upstream Nautilus developers. Showing a dialog by default makes problems for users that have external drives with FAT32-like filesystem, where all files are executable. See:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=72d6c7ce7febd573 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601736 Like Borivoje said, it is easily configurable from the Preferences dialog. ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #601736 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601736 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1111397 Title: Executable files do not launch in 13.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1111397/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
