Deleting files

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Dienstag, den 21.12.2004, 23:29 -0500 schrieb Brian Puccio:
> Sure, you can delete anything and everything as root.  Go to
> Applications, than Run, and type "gksudo nautilus" (no quotes).  This
> will open a nautilus session as the root user, allowing you to delete
> anything and everything you want.
and it completely breaks the configuartion of nautilus .... please
DONT ! never run nautilus with sudo or gksudo....you loose the ability
to edit your applications menu, your Trash may not work anymore and lots
of other bad things may happen. running it with gksudo will change the
filepermissions on all the hidden nautilus metafiles.....

btw, the same goes for firefox and gksudo/sudo, but thats pretty easy
solved with changing back the permissions of only one folder, nautilus
uses a lot more config/meta files. 

it is a sane behavior not to use X tools as root or via sudo, except
they are made for this usage.

ciao
	oli

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