Deleting Trash can

[Philippe Landau]

Chuck Vose wrote:
> This is bug worthy, I'm sure the devs would appreciate it if you
> submitted a bug about this.
this bug is almost two years old and well known,
but canonical as so often never replied.
it is made worse of course through the habit of
ubuntu to keep read-only permissions
when you copy folders from a CD or DVD,
and the fact that there is no GUI tool in ubuntu warty
for the simple task of changing permissions recursively,
meaning for example make the whole folder read and write.
also the trash is not called trash in ubuntu, but "wastebasket".

on 2004-11-15 i wrote:

Subject: sleeping gnome needs canonical fix (Re: folders permissions
> 
> 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

and salsafyren from volcano.xlogicgroup.com added:

> Yes! I completely agree!
> 
> 
> 
> Why is the priority a gigantic email program like evolution and simple
> things which SHOULD work out of the box not ?
> 
> 
> 
> I really wish that the Canonical developers would answer this.
> 
> 
> -- salsafyren
> -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users