[Nautilus-list] Idea for Nautilus and GMC.



Currently when people download executables from the network, say for
installing software, they can not execute them because the execute bit
is not set.

So typical installation instructions for a Unix application look like
this:

	1. Click on this link to download.
	2. Run a shell
	3. type chmod +x file
	4. Run

Ideally, we want to avoid this problem in GNOME, and we just want
executables to just work.  As they do in Windows.  

So I would like to suggest that we set this bit manually if the user
double clicks on a file that happens to have an a.out or ELF
signature.  Maybe we could popup a warning or something, but the
result should be that files downloaded in this way would just work.

Comments?

Miguel.




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