Bug 392147

Summary:	Add dialog to make ELF files executable
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Igor Gassmann <igor>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	elvis.angelaccio, justin.zobel, mail, private, probono, theassassin
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Igor Gassmann 2018-03-21 19:46:38 UTC

It shouldn't be necessary for the end-user to modify the permission of an AppImage file to execute it. It's not an intuitive use case. AppImage being an ELF file.

Quoting:

"
Desktop environments should ask the user whether to set the executable bit and then run the application when the user double-clicks on an ELF file that doesn't have the executable bit set.

...

It should ask "do you want to mark this application as executable and launch it?".
"

More information: https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/issues/374

Comment 1 probono 2018-12-27 21:58:44 UTC

Please assign to something who can do something about this.

As some food for thought, here is a proposal from the Nautilus team (which has not been implemented there yet afaik):

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/uploads/4b3842b2ab064875c1605bc961fc1415/Captura_de_ecr%C3%A3_de_2018-05-16_12-32-44.png

Comment 2 probono 2018-12-27 21:59:39 UTC

Sorry, of course I meant
"Please assign to someONE who can do something about this".

Comment 3 Justin Zobel 2020-10-27 01:04:06 UTC

I just downloaded OpenTTD from appimagehub.com and double clicked on it and it asks if I want to execute it, I click Do Not Ask Again and Execute and it works.

Igor/Probono can you please check on a recent version of Dolphin, thanks.

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Comment 5 Bug Janitor Service 2020-11-26 04:34:01 UTC

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
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