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

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com>]

> Here:
> 
> | > You should be able to mock up your idea by adding a simple application that
> | > is registered as the handler for elf/a.out files which does what you described.
> | 
> | Ok, I have implemented this.  I am just waiting for approval to commit
> | to gnome-utils.
> 
>
> If you do that, then Evolution, and any other app that uses the MIME db,
> will transparently start handling executables too.

You make a good point showing how little I thought about the issue.
And look again like a dumb rock by not being able to walk the entire
chain of thought. 

But I think that we can still implement this for Nautilus, while
keeping Evolution safe.  The trick is to make Evolution treat
specially the `application/x-executable' MIME type.  

It makes sense to do treat this in Evolution as a special case since
Evolution and mail will be the target of attacks anyways, and we can
not trust information that has been sent to us.  

Miguel.