Re: [Usability] Idea for more usability

[Caleb Marcus <caleb marcus gmail com>]

You could always just hit alt-f2 and do < gksudo nautilus > to open Nautilus as root, but this would make it quite a bit easier. I think that it should notify the user that modifying the folder in question affects the whole system and could break things, and if the user acknowledges that message, it should use gksudo to make whatever modifications the user requested. Also, this functionality could be extended to the way nautilus opens files, so that opening certain types of files that are only modifiable by root would cause it to ask the user whether they want to open the file for modification or not.
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 18:33 +0200, Florentin Rack wrote:
>     First of all: This is my first mailing list (I even don't know what that really is!)
>     So I hope that it's right just to email to usability gnome org.
>     
>     My idea was, that if you want to copy, delete, rename or whatever a file in a directory in that you can't write, a graphical passwort windows pops up (like in the administration programs) und then you can copy, delete oder rename the file without learning some console things like sudo, mv, cp, rm, chmod, chown etc. 
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