[Nautilus-list] Re: [PMH] Idea for Nautilus and GMC.

[Christian Rose]

Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:
> > Currently when people download executables from the network, say for
> > installing software, they can not execute them because the execute bit
> > is not set.
> 
> Does this actually happen?  Can anyone remember the last time they
> downloaded a single binary executable from the web?  Especially ones
> that weren't compressed, which might throw this off?  It sounds to me
> that this isn't really a problem..

The Nautilus installer, Loki Games demo installers, the Ximian
installer, and possibly many other installers... And afaik, people use
them all :-)


Christian