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  1. Bug #565233
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Comment 2 for bug 565233

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Corrado Mella (c-mella) wrote :

Sorry, but this is NOT a duplicate of #561479.

This is a stupid bug caused by the "cautious-launcher" script author, that is using Zenity to create a GUI error window to inform the user of the execute-bit problem.

On Kubuntu, Zenity is NOT installed by default, so the cautious-launcher script falls back to a console message (echo blah blah) that is obviously totally invisible when the windows .EXE is started from the GUI clicking on it.

An "echo" to a command line shell is NOT an acceptable substitute for a GUI window message!!!

This is pretty basic stuff, I'm stunned nobody has triaged the cautious-launcher script before using it in Wine.

Who wrote this script???