.desktop files

.desktop files in should not be executable

But on 2017-06-16 many ebuilds create executable .desktop files. This page intends to collect information about common problems and how to fix these.

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Please report upstream, if necessary.

Ideas / Todo

 * we could check for the x bit in https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/tree/pym/portage/util/_desktop_entry.py
 * in the past there were discussions about requiring them to be executable: https://commit-digest.org/issues/2009-02-08/