renaming doesn't work on file in a read only directory

[Magnentius]

The F2/rename file function is disabled in nautilus 2.22.2 for read-only files. Apparently the developer's assumed that this function is not needed when files can't be renamed because they're read-only anyway, but I often just copy & paste the name of a file in the console. So when you press F2 on a read-only file you should be able to edit the file name, but you should receive an error message when you try to apply changes.

[A. Walton (awalton)]

Thanks for your bug. Please keep in mind that developers are people too, and that this may not be intentional at all; a huge amount of changes have happened since Nautilus 2.20 including introducing a completely new virtual file system, and regressions are possible. However, I cannot reproduce that here even with a file with 444 permissions. Can you give us any more information that may be helpful in reproducing this? Kind of filesystem, whether or not you're using spatial or browser mode, the view you're using, and/or anything else we might find helpful. Thanks.

[Magnentius (nieuwsgroep222)]

Thanks for your quick reply! Please forgive my tone, I didn't intent to sound this annoyed. Overall it is great software!

I just set a file to read-only to and renaming seems to work indeed. Initially I received this error when copying the VIDEO_TS directory from an unprotected retail dvd to my hard drive. So I tried this again but even know the F2 function seems to work just fine. So I recorded a television program with my dvd recorder and copied the VIDEO_TS folder to my hard drive. Now the F2 function does not work. So I checked the permissions:

magnentius@desktop:~/Bureaublad/test$ ls -l VIDEO_TS

totaal 54636

-r-xr-xr-x+ 1 magnentius magnentius 12288 2008-05-17 10:22 VIDEO_TS.BUP

-r-xr-xr-x+ 1 magnentius magnentius 12288 2008-05-17 10:22 VIDEO_TS.IFO

-r-xr-xr-x+ 1 magnentius magnentius 32768 2008-05-17 10:22 VIDEO_TS.VOB

-r-xr-xr-x+ 1 magnentius magnentius 16384 2008-05-17 10:22 VTS_01_0.BUP

-r-xr-xr-x+ 1 magnentius magnentius 16384 2008-05-17 10:22 VTS_01_0.IFO

-r-xr-xr-x+ 1 magnentius magnentius 55771136 2008-05-17 10:22 VTS_01_1.VOB

This seems normal for read-only files. So I made a test directory which I gave use-only permissions and the F2 function doesn’t work on the files in it now!

magnentius@desktop:~/Bureaublad/test$ ls -ld VIDEO_TS

dr-xr-xr-x+ 2 magnentius magnentius 4096 2008-05-17 10:22 VIDEO_TS

magnentius@desktop:~/Bureaublad$ ls -ld test

dr-xr-xr-x+ 3 magnentius magnentius 4096 2008-05-17 10:30 test

*Conclusion*: the F2/rename function does not work on files in a read-only directory.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

confirmed on intrepid and sent to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540285

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

upstream one was closed as won't fix:

"Closing as WONTFIX as for last comment from Matthew and because I think as well
that we should reduce error alerts and not introduce new ones.
"