[pkg-cinnamon] Bug#814771: nemo: refuses to launch application symlinks

[Margarita Manterola]

Hi Michal,

Thanks for your report.
 
El Lunes 15 Febrero 2016 10:49 CET, Michal Suchanek <michal.suchanek at ruk.cuni.cz> Ha escrito: 
> I made a symlink on my desktop
> lrwxrwxrwx chromium.desktop -> /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop
> When I try to start chromium from my desktop nemo complains that the

> application is non-executable and untrusted. There is no reasonable way to make
> the application file in /usr/share/applications executable. The symlink itself
> is.

This has been reported upstream at:
https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues/1130

Unfortunately, there has been no activity there.

I wanted to tell you that a simple way of obtaining a similar 
behavior to what you want is to copy the .desktop file instead of 
making a symlink.  Of course this is not exactly the same but 
may serve as a workaround until the issue is fixed.

Cheers,
Marga