Should .desktop files have executable permissions?

Jonas Stein <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.xdg.devel
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Dear all,

we had recently a discussion on the gentoo developer cannel, if .desktop
files should be all executable, or all not-executable.

I could not find this in the definition. [1]
Can you help us and could you add a note about the executable bit in the
standard definition, please?

[1]
https://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html

Best,

-- 
Jonas Stein
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