FC6 Nautilus file properties options are crap

[Brandon Rambo]

you could allways just use a terminal to do it...

brandon



On 12/20/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> Has anyone had a look at the options you get for setting file
> permissions in FC6's Nautilus?  No longer you can tick on or off read,
> write, or execute permissions individually for user, group, and others.
>
> You get a drop-down for owner read-only or read/write, a drop-down for
> group none, read-only or read/write, likewise for others.  But only one
> tick box that lets everybody or nobody execute the file?  It seems
> stupid, in the extreme, to be able to end up setting something with file
> permissions like:  rwx --x --x
>
> The addition of some SELinux options is welcome, but the two choices are
> quite lame: user or temporary data, nothing else is offered.
>
> The properties dialogue doesn't make any contextual changes for when
> you're playing with directories instead of files.  The executable toggle
> is still labelled "allow executing file as program".
>
> If this is aimed as less techno-savvy users, it's going to be confusing.
> And for those who know about permissions, the thing is seriously
> unhelpful.
>
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