Dear Chris, thanks for your answer.
While your arguments for why the issue should not be considered a bug are convincing, I still believe that there should be a feature that solves the problem I described (i.e. open a file with root privileges, but with the user-defined application). I knew that "gksu -k" only refers to the environment variables. However, if $HOME is set to the user's home, doesn't it make sense to use the MIME applications specified there (in "~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list")? For me, the question seems to be whether it's better to find the right application by looking at (e.g.) $USER or at $HOME - but since I don't know the internals of gnome-open, I might be completely off there. If this is not a bug, do you think it would make sense to submit a feature request for an "open with the user-local application" option in gnome-open? Regards Hendrik -- "gnome-open" and "gksudo -k gnome-open" should open the same application https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/307149 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to libgnome in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
