Re: Useability-root window desktop

["Iain" <nodatadj webtribe net>]

> I am no more likely to execute a command that will erase my
> entire
> system in a root window desktop than I would be to do so in a
> terminal.

    It's surprisingly easy to do actually.

> I find fault with the logic of insisting that all
> potentially dangerous system commands be done exclusively in a
> terminal, especially when that insistence takes place in a *gnome
> discussion group* ??????????.
>
    It is also because at this time there is no secure way of switching
gnome to be a superuser without running the whole desktop as root, which as
many people have pointed out is a bad thing, even if you don't accept it.

> IMHO, it would be better if, after entering `root' in the dialog
> and before completing password entry,

What about if you run from terminal?
Iain