File Permissions in Nautilus

He's obviously more of an expert than you are. Windows' security does suck, but it has nothing to do with the ACLs. If anything, ACLs are a saving grace on Windows. Unix permissions do get the job done for most things, but only with extra effort, like making multiple copies of a file, or creating extra groups that don't need to exist. This creates more complexity, and more points of failure. ACLs are NOT a windows thing; they've been around for ages on Unix, and are popular on most commercial unix systems. We really need to get this moving on the free unices.

I agree with the original poster; refining the old, technically inferior, and user-unfriendly permissions system when everyone wants ACLs makes no sense. KDE already has ACL support. I'd like to see support for ACLs and EAs in GNOME ASAP.

And no, trolls, I won't be doing it myself. I work on other things.