I dis some rearch in the upstream bug tracker and came upon "Better warning and error messages.", which seems to fix this bug. It makes inaccessible folders appear in red and their parent folders appear in orange. So this bug seems to be fixed in xenial, although I never noticed the connection between the colors and the error message.
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #686136 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686136 ** Also affects: baobab via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686136 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: baobab (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1308185 Title: give a way to disclose more information about inaccessible folders To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/baobab/+bug/1308185/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
