Cosimo Cecchi (a GNOME dev) says that he's working on this for GNOME 3.22 (Ubuntu 17.04 for us, if Nautilus and Gedit 3.22 make it into that release).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490200 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #490200 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490200 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1433657 Title: Add PolicyKit/pkexec support To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/1433657/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
