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Bug 164850 - RFE: Improvement to appearance of folders where you don't have viewing permission
RFE: Improvement to appearance of folders where you don't have viewing permi...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 133696
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.13.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 615846 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-01-21 19:24 UTC by David Malcolm
Modified: 2011-08-10 11:46 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16

Attachments
Mockup from the dupe (137.88 KB, image/png)
2010-07-08 12:23 UTC, Allan Day 		Details

Description David Malcolm 2005-01-21 19:24:18 UTC 
Currently if you open a folder e.g. on a Samba share you can get this dialog:
"The folder contents could not be displayed.
You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of WHEREVER"

You're then left with an empty folder view.

This has always seemed a bit wrong to me; the folder isn't empty, it's just that
you're not allowed to look inside.

So perhaps the folder should instead have some widgetry explaining what the
problem is, perhaps with an "Unlock" button?

See this mockup Bryan did for evince:
http://www.gnome.org/~clarkbw/designs/document-viewer/locked%20evince.png


Other information:
Comment 1 Bryan W Clark 2005-02-13 05:46:02 UTC 
Just to note how this turned out in the implementation:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/images/screenshot-secret_document.pdf-full.png
Comment 2 Christian Neumair 2006-02-26 08:58:39 UTC 
This missed 2.14 UI freeze, but we now have means to add extra widgets to the view which we could use for displaying this information. Confirming.
Comment 3 Allan Day 2010-07-08 12:20:06 UTC 
*** Bug 615846 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Allan Day 2010-07-08 12:23:44 UTC 
Created attachment 165471 [details]
Mockup from the dupe
Comment 5 André Klapper 2011-08-10 11:46:07 UTC 
Closing as dup, I've copied relevant comments.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 133696 ***