Re: [Usability] know how needed

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 14:58 +0000, Joachim Noreiko wrote:

> There is actually a bug in gksudo currently: if you
> choose a theme that is installed in your home folder,
> sudo'd applications fallback to the default GTK theme.

I believe this to be correct behaviour. The reason is that
a "theme engine" can execute arbitrary C code, and if started
by sudo would potentially execute that code as root.

Liam

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