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[Gnome nautilus] bad display of 'Octal Permissions'

Bug #43273 reported by Removed by request
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Nautilus
Expired
Low
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

I use Dapper beta 2 (live) up to date [French]

In Nautilus, octal permissions column displays a bad contents.

For directory I have for example :
1200755
1601777
For a file :
200644

Last three numbers are ok. '1' appears only for a directory.

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Jérémie Corbier (jcorbier) wrote :

Same behaviour for me.

Changed in nautilus:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. Could you describe what else you would expect?

Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Needs Info
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Removed by request (removed30301) wrote :

In breezy/hoary I had 755, 777, 644.
7 --> rwx
6 --> rw--
5 --> r-x
4 --> r--
etc.

I don't understand the meaning of 1200, 1601 and 200.

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Jérémie Corbier (jcorbier) wrote :

According to the Desktop User Guide in Nautilus Preferences/List Columns Preferences:

"Octal Permissions: Choose this option to display the permissions of the item in octal notation, for example 764."

I think it would be more « user friendly » to only show the first four octal digits (I don't know if we can speak about user-friendliness when it comes to octal digits though ^^).

Moreover it would follow what's done with "Permisions" column.

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Jérémie Corbier (jcorbier) wrote : A temporary fix I used for my own Nautilus

A temporary fix I used for my own Nautilus.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for the comments and the patch, I've forwarded that upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340865

Changed in nautilus:
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
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Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Changed in nautilus:
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

That's fixed with the new UI for permissions to the edgy version

Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Rejected
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Changed in nautilus:
importance: Unknown → Low
status: Invalid → Expired
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