nautilus greys out valid options

[Mister X]

When you are in a group that has full rights to edit files, but you are not the owner, the "Create File/Folder" options are greyed out in Nautilus although they shouldn't be. Despite being greyed out, clicking them does still work though.

Practical example: the /var/www sub-folders belong to www-data:www-data and file permissions are set to 775. I add the regular user to that group to be able to edit files without requiring root access. He can now edit files and create folders, but the Nautilus buttons do not indicate this.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.4.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 12 13:57:39 2012
GsettingsChanges:
 org.gnome.nautilus.window-state geometry '934x665+2104+146'
 org.gnome.nautilus.window-state sidebar-width 168
 org.gnome.nautilus.window-state start-with-status-bar true
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Ads20000 (ads20000)]

I used `sudo nautilus` to create a folder called roottest in ~. I gave my user group ('adam') the 'Create and delete files' permission, and I'm able to make new folders within the root-owned folder as expected.

I'm on Files 3.26 in Ubuntu 17.10.