Re: Executable bit on .desktop files: necessary or unwanted?

[Matthew Widup <widupmm%proton.me@localhost>]

I use KDE from pkgsrc on NetBSD.  114/165 of my .desktop files are executable.  I cannot discern a difference.  They all appear to me to be taken into account by the desktop environment.  I wonder if this is a newer innovation that isn't incorporated into the pkgsrc version yet.

On Monday, February 17th, 2025 at 2:08 PM, David H. Gutteridge <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost> wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 at 13:32:42 +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:

]snip[ 

> > On my system, most .desktop files I have installed are not executable
> > (53 of 64), but some KDE ones and a few others are.

]snip[

> I can't comment on the state of KDE or Gnome DEs in pkgsrc itself; I
> don't use them. Certainly this isn't universally required by every DE
> out there. I'd be opposed to unifying by marking them executable,
> unless someone can point definitively to which DEs (and which versions
> of those) definitely require it, in which contexts (installation