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And once you use it there is a clear warning that you are sudo

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Tbh this has also bothered me in the past. I think the choice shown below should be somehow altered, as using root privileges as a normal user to open a directory in File Manager isn't the same with opening a directory as root user, but it is also not clear that this is the case.

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For nautilus, you can install nautilus-admin to do the same.
More details : https://askubuntu.com/questions/156998/how-do-i-start-nautilus-as-root

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All the dolphin addon does is add a "open as admin" option

ultimately its something fairly easily achievable, but with enough to prevent a user who really doesnt know what they are doing doing damage

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