Hi, I think it would be handy to have an option to "open file with text editor as root", especially, when recovering a system from a live CD, but not only in that case. It would be useful just any time a user is told to edit a system file "by hand", which still can happen sometimes. Now the user has to use a terminal, know sudo and more.
I guess there are basically two ways to do it, add support to gedit for gaining privileged permissions only for read/save operations, but all that gobject code is a bit too scary for me :-) or much easier but potentially not that secure way: It could be enough to install a file like this: $ cat /usr/share/application-registry/gksudogedit.applications gksudogedit command=gksudo gedit name=Text editor as root can_open_multiple_files=false expects_uris=true uses_gnomevfs=true requires_terminal=false mime_types=text/*,text/html,text/plain (with permissions root:admin 750) and run update-mime-database and so on. regards, Lukáš Vacek -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop