sleeping gnome needs canonical fix (Re: folders permissions

[Philippe Landau]

on 2003-03-13 someone showed how gnome fails to empty the trash:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108307
a pretty basic task, often used.
yet almost 2 years later it is still not fixed.
could someone from canonical please fix this upstream or so ?

Ari Torhamo wrote:
>>How change folder permissions (include subfolders)? 
>>I know, that I can press right mouse button and change permissions, 
>>but permissions change only for one folder. In KDE Konqueror was 
>>function to select "change in subfolders too" (or something like taht), 
>>but in gnome I didn't find this function.
> It doesn't seem to be possible to change permissions this way in
> Nautilus, which is suprising, as this is such a basic task one would
> want to accomplish with a file manager. I asked about this a while ago
> at gnomesupport.org and was told that this has been reported to Gnome
> Bugzilla. 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44767
this bug, reported to gnome 2000-11-15, has its anniversary today :-)
simple to fix, often requested, never done in 3 years ...
does gnome really not care about simple users ?

> So, the only way to change permissions to a directory and all the
> subdirectories at the same time is to use the command line. Perhaps you
> already know that the command for changing file permissions is "chmod".
> You need to use -R option to get the change to affect the
> subdirectories. If you want to change the file ownership, the command is
> "chown", again with the option -R. Here is a link for detailed
> instructions on how to use these commands:
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_03_04.html
> 
> It would be interesting to hear from Gnome people why this feature is
> not present in Gnome (yet?). Is it because it's difficult to implement
> for some reason, or is it because it's not considered so important?

kind regards     philippe