[Policykit] No possibilty to unlock the save option in Gedit while trying to modify xorg.conf

[Wouter Stomp]

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
<thibaut.bethune at gmail.com> 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)
>
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