Gedit should notice you when you open a file with it that you can't write to. Preferably in a nonintrusive way, like those yellow bars that are shown for some other messages at top of the window.
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:14 PM, thibaut bethune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Policykit is there to avoid the user to get a dialog box that would > say "that can't be done" without offering a workaround (if i'm not > mistaken) > > well i've run Nautilus, and i've opened in Gedit etc/X11/xorg.conf > i've made some changes in it and pressed the "save" button (which was > active) and i've gotten an error message > > I think that : > either the save button should not be active (at less) > either the user should have the possibilty to give the password to be > able to save the file (that would be perfect to me) > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss