It's really a sad state of affairs that this bug reveals. The Linux community seems to be disintegrating, each clan blaming the others for whatever. Ubuntu looked like a viable alternative to the big guys, but with flat-out failures like this one, it's beginning to look doomed.
Forget clannishness: customers want a comprehensive, working, graphical solution. Period. Bug management is another issue: how come GNOME bugs aren't just another department of this bugzilla? Why isn't there a simple way to transfer the "bug" to the proper bug management system? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/952636 Title: No GUI-based group management feature beginning 12.04. Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: New Bug description: **Workaround** Install gnome-system-tools to have again users and groups as before While I was rather frustrated with the fact there was no ACL-based feature within Ubuntu/Linux to allow certain users to have certain access to folders, I worked around it with the group feature. In a perfect world, I would be able to say "Bob, Jim, Frank, read+write access to /media/public", but I cannot do that because there is no ACL based feature. (Hate to say it, but see OSX "get info" for an idea). To work around it, I've just created a new group and added Bob, Jim, and Frank to that group, then added that group to /media/public or whichever folder I'm targeting. It seems as if that functionality has been removed in 12.04.... really? Why would we remove needed features such as this from the GUI that was just fine the way it was? In closing - I'd really like to see that group management feature back. Several users I've spoken to just within the last 15 minutes alone have shared similar frustration. It was so easy to use... But in a perfect world, the ACL idea would be nothing short of amazing to see... Thank you for your time! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/952636/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
