[Usability] Will Nautilus ever be able to set recursive file permissions?

[Jim March <1 jim march gmail com>]

Folks,

I'm on Mint12 and have confirmed that Nautilus is still broken.  In
order to switch ownership or other permissions of, for example, an
entire USB drive recursively (all directories top to bottom) I still
have to drop to a terminal and run chown or chmod.

The "Apply Permissions To Enclosed Files" button is still as
non-functional as it was in 2006 when I started with Ubuntu Dapper
6.06.

Is there any effort underway to fix this, or is there another GUI file
manager that isn't broken?

Thanks,

Jim March