when changing the owner or group of a file (from root) the drop down menus are not saturated with the options especially when the nautilus window is close to the edge of the desktop. I believe this was fixed in the latest versions of the 2.2 series.
Perhaps "populated" is the word you were looking for instead of saturated? Just a guess as "saturated" doesn't make much sense in this context... http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=saturated sat·u·rate Audio pronunciation of saturated ( P ) Pronunciation Key (sch-rt) tr.v. sat·u·rat·ed, sat·u·rat·ing, sat·u·rates 1. To imbue or impregnate thoroughly: âThe recollection was saturated with sunshineâ (Vladimir Nabokov). See Synonyms at charge. 2. To soak, fill, or load to capacity. 3. Chemistry. To cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance.
I'm not sure what you mean here. Can you describe the problem you're having a bit more? With nautilus you can't currently change the owner of a file, and you can't change the group to a group you're not a member of.
When looking at permissions for a file if the properties windows is at the top or bottom of the desktop the owner and group drop down menus are not populated fully.
You gave to be loggon on as root. I know this is a no-no but a necessity.
It works well for me. You have to scroll the menu of course, like with any gtk+ menu that doesn't fit on the screen.
No, when the menu pops up it is not populated fully. Their is a large blank space at the bottom of menu. This is when the properties window is at the top of the desktop.
That happens for me to, then there is an arrow on the top which lets you scroll the menu to reach the other menu items. This is working as designed for me. If you don't get the scroll button at the top of the menu, please post a screenshot of how the menu looks for you.
Created attachment 95050 [details] screenshot of problem As you can see the pop up menu is not fully populated. This looks unpolished to me.
It looks exactly like it should, and how i described. If you want to get the rest of the items you have to scroll the menu. The reason it is like this is that if you pop up the menu the currently selected item has to be over the pop-up spot, since otherwise its easy to accidentally change to something else. This is core gtk+ behaviour.