Bug 232877

Version:           1.4/KDE 4.4.2 (using KDE 4.4.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

When I have a folder of whom I am the owner, let's say janet/users, which contains some files and folders belonging to janet/janet and some files belonging to janet/users and I want to make everything equal (janet/users) I do the following using dolphin:

I open the properties dialog of the parent folder (owner janet/users), check the option to apply all changes to all subfolders and files and - nothing changes.

The problem is I haven't made any changes in the owner/group fields because they contain what I want to achieve for all subfolders and files. For me it is clear that I want to apply the information I already have for everything inside the folder but I have no way of telling dolphin what I want. So I first have to change both fields, owner and group to something else, apply that and change it back to what it was for dolphin to recognize the change.

It would be more obvious for the user what dolphin expects and does and there wouldn't be any need for such a time consuming and non-intuitive workaround, if there would be additional options to check like:

1. duplicate owner to all subfolders and their content
2. duplicate group to all subfolders and their content
3. duplicate properties to all subfolders and their content
4. apply only changes to all subfolders and their content

This way one could apply the existing user and group names recursively without doing that work twice.