You could always just hit alt-f2 and do < gksudo nautilus > to open
Nautilus as root, but this would make it quite a bit easier. I think
that it should notify the user that modifying the folder in question
affects the whole system and could break things, and if the user
acknowledges that message, it should use gksudo to make whatever
modifications the user requested. Also, this functionality could be
extended to the way nautilus opens files, so that opening certain types
of files that are only modifiable by root would cause it to ask the user
whether they want to open the file for modification or not.
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 18:33 +0200, Florentin Rack wrote:

> First of all: This is my first mailing list (I even don't know what that 
> really is!)
> So I hope that it's right just to email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> My idea was, that if you want to copy, delete, rename or whatever a
> file in a directory in that you can't write, a graphical passwort
> windows pops up (like in the administration programs) und then you can
> copy, delete oder rename the file without learning some console things
> like sudo, mv, cp, rm, chmod, chown etc. 
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