I just have tested and concluded that nautilus and firefox can be started with gksu for non-root user (without gconf daemon issue), but gnome-terminal refuses with "Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting.", sigh. So to me it looks like gnome-terminal issue, unless gksu does something special for gnome-terminal that I am not aware of.
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