Right Click - Edit as root

[Rashkae]

Brian McKee wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
>> Given gnome's insane drag n' drop move files without asking and with no
>> undo and we won't ever allow you to change that default behavior, I
>> really don't think running nautilus as root is *ever* a good idea.
> 
> Hey - I *like* it that way.  I don't need Clippy bugging me everytime
> I want to move something.
> If I'm about to screw up I hit the 'yes' box out of habit before I
> realize my mistake anyway!
> 

I'm sure a great many people 'like' it that way, which is why it's been
that way for such a long time.  (consider what happens when Gnome tries
something people don't like, say, default to a spacial instead of
browser interface.)

It's my personal opinion that the reasons for not providing any
mechanism to change the behaviour to be very weak, especially
considering how harmful it can be.  But that wasn't the point of my
little rant in this thread.  What I'm trying to say is, gksudo nautilus
is probably not a good idea at all under the current configuration.  As
a rule of thumb, most people don't hit yes when they didn't intend to
click/drag anything around in the first place.


> As for the no 'undo' option - I believe that's part of the latest
> version of Gnome with the upgrades to gfs or whatever they call it.
> 

Oh, well, that's good then, thank you.


> Hey - this is linux - if you don't like Nautilus, use Dolphin,
> Konqueror, Thunar, MC or goodness knows how many other options and
> quit trying to 'fix' the ones we like :-)
> 

Errr yep, that was the point of my message... soliciting ideas for more
suitable  (IMNSHO, ie, less psychopathically dangerous) root GUI file
managers.



Is that even a word? It should be :)