Bug 90739

Summary:	Umask setting in .desktop files ?
Product:	[Unmaintained] kio	Reporter:	Jean-Yves Burlett <jean-yves>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Faure <faure>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
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Description Jean-Yves Burlett 2004-10-04 08:33:52 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.0KDE 3.3.1)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable PackagesDebian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

It could be great to have an umask setting in .desktop files. Maybe a X-KDE specific entry or something.
Currently you habe to write wrapper scripts to get that functionality, which is not that great.
The only reason I see not to add this is that it would be Unix-specific (or at least posix-specific, I think).

Example : add a X-KDE-Umask=002 entry to digikam.desktop so that digikam could use a shared folder for albums.

Comment 1 Nigel Stewart 2007-10-05 08:04:20 UTC

Yes, I think this is a great idea for applications such as CD rippers, office software, etc - in order that umask 002 (group read/write) policy can be configured at a finer granularity than per-user.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-04-24 21:43:41 UTC

(In reply to Jean-Yves Burlett from comment #0)
> Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.0KDE 3.3.1)
> Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable PackagesDebian testing/unstable
> Packages
> OS:                Linux
> 
> It could be great to have an umask setting in .desktop files. Maybe a X-KDE
> specific entry or something.

This should be implemented for everyone, not just us. That requires changing the FreeDesktop spec first. Take it up with them as a first step. :)