group of enclosed files and folders doesn't change

[Michiel Wittkampf]

First you select the permissions tab in the nautilus properties window of a folder. There you can change the permissions and also select 'apply permissions to enclosed files'.

First: the permissions you set are applied to the enclosed files. Yet, the group you select isn't applied. This is confusing and not handy. Better would be to also set the group for all enclosed files and folders.

Second: this should be 'apply permissions to enclosed files and folders'.

[Lightbreeze (nedhoy-gmail)]

Changing group works for me in Ubuntu Jaunty. I select Documents and press Properties > Permissions. I change the group to, say, 'CDROM' and file access to 'Read-only'. Pressing 'Apply permissions to enclosed files' will change the file access permissions for all my documents for the group CDROM to 'Read-only'.

Is there something I'm missing? How can I reproduce what you are experiencing?

[Michiel Wittkampf (michielwittkampf)]

I see what you mean. What you explained is that the permissions are set for the files which have the same group set as the group someone selects in the dialog. I understand now. I meant something else. I want to be able to set the group with nautilus for all the files and folders that are enclosed in a folder.

Second, now I understand nautilus behavior for setting permissions of enclosed files, I would like to suggest to change it.

First I will explain why I suggest these changes. First, the behavior wasn't clear to me (I read the help.) Second, now I understand the behavior, I think it is not intuitive and quite complicated for a lot of users. Third, I think the permission dialog can be designed in a way which is more aligned with the behavior. Forth, I don't think that a lot of graphical UI oriented users want to set the permissions only for the enclosed files with a certain group set. That is a quite advanced way of setting permissions. And the plain option of setting all the enclosed files to the same group, with certain selected permissions, doesn't seem to be available.

Can you agree?

Now, some initial suggestions for different behavior and and a new permissions dialog:
- Move the 'file access' elements to the same area as the button 'Apply permissions to enclosed files'
- Pressing 'Apply permissions to enclosed files' sets the permissions AND group AND owner for all the enclosed files and folders (to the setting the user selected in the dialog).

I think it is more usable for most graphic UI oriented users.

What do you think?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug is duplicate of bug #94512