Thank you for your report, but this isn't a bug in libgnome. libglib /
libgio does all the work for this, and it behaves as expected (it uses
the current users preferences, which if you have launched it via sudo or
gksu, will be the root user).
I think you've misunderstood what the environment is
Dear Chris,
thanks for your answer.
While your arguments for why the issue should not be considered a bug
are convincing, I still believe that there should be a feature that
solves the problem I described (i.e. open a file with root privileges,
but with the user-defined application).
I knew
