Comment 3 for bug 1111397
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| Luis Silva (luis-silva) wrote Re: Executable files do not launch in 13.04 | #3 |
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Hi,
For me this is a bug, the fix should be applied to the original package, so 13.04 and future ubuntu installations will not suffer from this.
There is no sense with behavior 'View executable text files' selected by default for a regular user.
Shellscripts are commonly used to launch other executables, so a regular user will expect that double clicking on a given application executable (being script or ELF) will launch an application instead of gedit showing 'strange programming mambojambo'.
I will give you an example: here in Portugal, we pay our taxes using an official application that is downloaded from a goverment site.
The application is developed in java and it worked flawlessly with ubuntu. The application is packaged inside a special script file that will auto-extract the application content to a selected installation dir (by the way the application launcher is also a shellscript). So a regular user when double clicking this script, a gigant script will be opened in gedit! This really doesn't make any sense from a regular user prespective.