Bug#518390: "root terminal" in main gnome menu is broken.

[Josselin Mouette]

Le dimanche 08 mars 2009 à 12:57 +0000, ael a écrit :
> If this is really intended behaviour, then it hasn't been thought 
> through. For a start, the "root terminal" in the main gnome menu is 
> broken as a consequence. The command there is
> 
> gksu -D Terminal -- env -u ORBIT_SOCKETDIR /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
> 
> The whole thing seems very nannie windozie to me: I am banned from 
> editing, say /etc/apt/sources.list, from any sort of gnome/xorg 
> application, but I can use emacs provided I don't try to run it from a 
> spawned xterm or the like.
> 
> What is the newbie who hasn't yet learnt emacs or vi* or the like meant 
> to do?
> 
> Sorry to grumble: seems to be an upstream problem...

Why did the chicken cross the road? Upstream decision.

And I can’t blame upstream to have made GConf using D-Bus given the
number of bugs it fixes.

Yes, the result is that root applications can’t use the user’s GConf
settings anymore. This is a design restriction in D-Bus.

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