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#8289: A simple and elegant way to differenciate apps launched as root
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Written by DanaKil the 9 May 08 at 16:50.
Category: Look and Feel.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
I have a simple and elegant solution to easily differentiate an application launched as root (Adept Manager, Nautilus, Konqueror, etc.) and an other one : I use the same color scheme for both users but I slightly colorize the "standart background" (the textedit/lineedit... background color) of the root color theme (salmon color for me).
This way, all my applications looks the same but I can immediately see which application is in root mode (and be carefull of what I do with them !)
I use KDE but I think this idea can apply to Gnome too.
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Rioting_Pacifist wrote on the 10 May 08 at 00:40
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Also changing the title would be useful
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mambazo wrote on the 10 May 08 at 03:56
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I've manually done this myself (assign a different theme / color scheme to the root user) so that I can tell which apps are running in root mode. I also like the idea of changing the title. Ubuntu should do both by default.
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DanaKil wrote on the 10 May 08 at 11:39
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@mambazon
" I also like the idea of changing the title."
why not but this may require more work whereas changing the color theme is really simple and efficient.
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Tuxoid wrote on the 12 May 08 at 23:07
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This is a start, but I believe an emblem (say in the shape of a key), would be more obvious to new users
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