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11:08 AM

Hmm... I tried to sign the letter to SE over at dearstackexchange.com. I don't see my name but I did get a 100 points joining bonus at Stack Overflow.

@DKBose I see your name there.

I had to click "Expand all 400."

Though I'm guessing that's not why you didn't see it -- probably it took a short time to appear.

@EliahKagan thanks! Maybe they ran some deep background checks. When I looked it was 397, then 398, and then 399 by which time I posted here.

Yeah, I'm not sure how the process works for validating users on that.

Unrelated to that...

10k users: I don't agree with the proposal in this meta question about the -proposed repos, but I think that meta question should be kept. It was deleted automatically by the system because it had negative score and was inactive for a while. (As a cleanup mechanism, that works better on the main site than on meta.) I've voted to undelete it and I encourage others to do so.

@EliahKagan done my bit.

Thanks. One more undelete vote from someone will be needed.

11:20 AM

I have a .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications and I want to move it over to /usr/share/applications. After moving it, I'd like it to go from -rwxr-xr-x 1 dkb dkb to -rw-r--r-- 1 root root because that's how the other .desktop files in /usr/share/applications look like. I could do it in two steps, chown and chmod, but can it be done in just one step?

@DKBose Why taking away x permission? Wouldn't it make desktop file useless?

@Kulfy but isn't that what you see if you run ls -l /usr/share/applications ?

Damn!! I didn't realise that.

@Kulfy no issue! This is a unusual thing a Kubuntu user wants to do (I think)!

May be you can call chown and chmod in some script and pass the file name as an argument to the script. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

11:36 AM

I've not messed much with the twins ch.... Poster seems satisfied so it's not urgent :)

@Kulfy Desktop files that reside outside users' home directories and temporary directories (like /tmp) don't need execute permissions.

wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/…

I see. TIL. Thanks for the info.

The reason the default configuration requires them to be marked executable in those locations is that people often download files to those locations, and a file downloaded from the Internet shouldn't make who-knows-what code run when double-clicked, without the user deliberately making it executable of their own accord. (Related)

terdon

@EliahKagan It uses the SE API which, for some reason, is linked to Stack Overflow.

@EliahKagan Agreed. Undeleted.

@terdon Thanks!