Confusing use of 'gksudo' in 'sudo' paragraph

Bug #546295 reported by gsmx
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Ubuntu Manual
Fix Released
Low
Benjamin Humphrey

Bug Description

On page 127, gedit is started with the 'gksudo gedit' command. While this is the correct way of handling a GUI-app with sudo, I think there must be a sidenote explaining the difference or just give the example 'sudo gedit' (because the implications are very, very minimal).

Downloaded manual: march 24
Revision: 561

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Benjamin Humphrey (humphreybc) wrote :

Jamin, could you please add a brief margin note explaining the difference between sudo and gksudo? Cheers.

Changed in ubuntu-manual:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
assignee: nobody → JaminDay (jaminday)
milestone: none → beta-release
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Benjamin Humphrey (humphreybc) wrote :

Changed the example to use sudo instead.

Changed in ubuntu-manual:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
assignee: JaminDay (jaminday) → Benjamin Humphrey (humphreybc)
Changed in ubuntu-manual:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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