What's about displaying a horizontal bar like that one on the Trash when you navigate to a folder where you don't have permissions to create new files, with a button that would allow you to switch it into "root mode" on that window (introducing the password into a prompt if it wasn't used recently, of course) until you visit a folder owned by you?
-- Nautilus should have a superuser mode https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs