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[Sebastien Bacher <seb128@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Having graphical/GTK applications started under sudo is a security
issue, the fact that you know some example of program doing so doesn't
make it a good idea. The right way to give access to user-restricted
action would be through polkit integration (which is what update-
manager, software-center, control-center gnome-disks, etc are doing) and
not by having the UI being under privileges as well.

In any case feel free to report that bug to GNOME since they are the
ones writting nautilus, Ubuntu is not likely going to look at issues
from non recommended usecases

** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1502706

Title:
  Nautilus failed to create $HOME/.config/nautilus when it is run as
  root when HOME=/root

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  As title, Nautilus failed to create $HOME/.config/nautilus when it is
  run as root when HOME=/root

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.9
  Uname: Linux 4.1.4-ck1-1000hz-nehalem-preemptive-bfq-uksm-iommu-simplefb i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.15
  Architecture: i386
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Mon Oct  5 04:37:45 2015
  GsettingsChanges:
   b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'use-tree-view' b'true'
   b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']"
  SourcePackage: nautilus
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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