Re: [gedit-list] Request: ask for adminpass when saving readonly files

[Paolo Maggi <paolo maggi polito it>]

Hi,

> This looks very important to me. Basically, people don't understand how
> to edit a file as root (actually, it's very hard to do). This is an
> obvious usability issue.

Well, if you need to edit a file as root, then I hope you can figure how
to do so. Otherwise it is better you don't edit it ;)

IMHO, it is more important to be able to save a file you own but for
which you don't have write permissions.

BTW, I'm half joking here, in the sense that I see the rational of this
request.

> I thought about an intermediate solution. Tell me what you think of it.
> 
> The idea is to have a "proxy" saver program. It would just be a very
> simple program that would just save the file, nothing else. It would be
> spawned using gksu(do), and communicate with the main gedit program
> using an ad-hoc protocol.

Well, this could be a possible solution but before implementing it we
need to solve some problems:
- is gksu(do) a blessed tool in GNOME?
- we need a way to authenticate the main gedit process against the proxy

Ciao,
Paolo