Gksu in 14.04?

[Tom H]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Peter Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/08/14 21:30, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:05 PM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:59 AM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> gksu/gksudo is abandonware upstream and pkexec is the replacement.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> PS: It would have been really handy to have this listed in the release
>>> notes....
>>
>> I've never used gksu/gksudo or pkexec (unless I'm using them
>> implicitly when I use the NM gui). Are they really used that widely
>> and that often that they rate a mention in the release notes?
>
> YES! Sorry to shout but I use gksu frequently for both nautilus and gedit!
> I'm sure I'm not alone :)

I can see from this thread and some of the links that there people
doing this - and I'm amazed.

The question is: do Canonical and Ubuntu know?