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When viewing a file's properties, it would be nice if we could edit that file's permissions like PCManFM lets us: an advanced permissions-editing dialog, allowing us to set r,w,x for owner, group, others; it should also be able to set/unset the setguid, setuid, and sticky... Also, Thunar is currently unable to change the owner of a file, even when running it with the root account.

I recall Nautilus being able to show the permissions' dialog in two fashions: one basic dialog (like Thunar's) and another dialog, both more complex and useful.

Please look into this :) (and the ability to open the properties dialog for multiple selected files, described in another bug)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select a file
2. Open properties dialog for that file



I marked this as "Normal" severity, even though I think that being able to fully handle file's permissions is a *major* component of any file manager :)