open as administrator open folders twice

Thank you for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? The current gksu has no such feature. The bug would be a bug from the extension not from the nautilus package

Edgy 6.10 and the gksu extension for nautilus ver 1.9.3-1ubuntu2
No but there was no nautilus-extension section so I did put it in nautilus.

Do you still have the bug on Ubuntu 7.04?

Yep I just installed it and it's still the same behavior.
If I select a folder and then click "open as administrator" and type the pass, it will open the selected folder + the root (/).

It's nothing major I use nautilus actions instead, gksu "nautilus" %M typ folder only. this will open the selected folder only.
Same goes for files gksu "gedit" %M typ files only.

Binary package hint: nautilus-gksu

I can confirm this bug in Edgy and it is still existing in Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 Final version.
Ask google i know, people in other forum have also experienced this bug.

It is very annoying and confusing, you don't know which folder belongs to root and which is not.
It opens 2 windows (folders) at the same time as said above

nautilus-gksu 2.0.0-1ubuntu3

We're adding this functionality into Linux Mint so I had a look at it and I can confirm that this bug is still present in Hardy. Basically when a folder is open with nautilus-gksu this is what happens:

- A nautilus instance is launched on the selected folder with root permissions.
- Another nautilus instance (which appears behind the first one) is launched on the user's home folder, also with root permissions.

The code for nautilus-gksu is in the package gksu. If I was keen on debugging the C code I'd have a look at pthread_create (&new_thread, NULL, start_gksu_thread, (void*)full_cmd); in libnautilus-gksu.c (gksu version 2.0.0).

I'll implement this as a script instead but here you go anyway if you want to fix this upstream.

Also, in the French translation:
msgid "Open as administrator"
msgstr "Ouvrir en tant administrateur"

should be

msgid "Open as administrator"
msgstr "Ouvrir en tant qu'administrateur"

And finally... it would be nice for nautilus-gksu to use an icon.

Now, I'm going a bit too far as I'm touching on off-topic things here but... this kind of functionality is quite powerful and there's no visual way to distinguish a root nautilus window from a normal one. I couldn't find a way to force nautilus into using a different title. Unless nautilus is able to look different for the user in this particular context I'd suggest to use another file browser. It's ok to edit a particular file or to launch a particular program as root, but having root nautilus instances without any visual hint for the user to remember is quite a risk to the stability of the system :)

Good luck to the devs and sorry for throwing all these ideas into a single comment.

I can confirm that this bug is still present in Hardy

Thanks
Skumpic

Still here in hardy as of today. Anybody care to share a temporary fix?

-Alan

Found the bug, please refer Bug #252633(patch attached).

I can confirm that Siva Chandran P's patch fixes the bug for me.

Confirming in Intrepid. Seems nobody cares to include the proposed patch.

Patch works. Great.

I created a PPA with updated debs containing the patch from Siva Chandran P.
Binary packages: gksu; nautilus-gksu
https://launchpad.net/~macellarius/+archive

What about adding this in Intrepid-proposed?