[Thunar-dev] Feature request: superuser mode

[N. Volbers]

Hello everyone,

first of all, thanks for this wonderful and fast file manager!

I was looking at an alternative gtk filemanager, pcmanfm, and noticed on 
their screenshot page (on the very bottom) a nice-looking superuser 
mode, see http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html .

Such a mode would be a great addition to thunar, because as it is now, 
it is often necessary to change ownership through the shell. I tried a 
workaround by adding an action which executes 'gksu thunar', but this 
doesn't work too well, because (1) you always need to select something 
to trigger an action, and (2) there is no substitution for the 
directory, that thunar is currently browsing (I would then use 'gksu 
thunar %thisdir').

What do you think?

Best regards,

Niklas.