Thanks for your report. This is to be expected, since the File Roller instance running as a normal user has no privilege to write to directories owned by root. In the future, this can be fixed with the use of PolicyKit [1], giving the user the ability to escalate the privileges of File Roller, Nautilus and other apps only when needed.
[1] http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2007/11/23/file-operations-in-nautilus- gio-and-adventures-in-the-land-of-policykit/ ** Changed in: file-roller (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- Dragging file from File Roller to root Nautilus fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183659 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for file-roller in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
