Comment 8 for bug 505371

@James: "Why not make the OS transition process a little bit easier for more users?"

Because I do not agree with the assumption that the changes you proposed (adding options to the dialog) will improve usability, on the contrary, I strongly believe that this will only lead to more problems, because among other things it will almost certainly tempt some users to automatically respond to the dialog with "Run with administrative privileges" even when this is not needed or not wise to do so.

If the script authors require administrator privileges then they should be the ones asking for it.

However, having read your original report once more, I would like to indicate I have no problem with (and support) the resolution you proposed to Problem 1 - Terminal auto-closes (keeping the terminal open when the user selects "Run in Terminal"). If you would be so kind to move this into an issue of its own, that would be great (file it upstream right away, not in Launchpad please).

P.S.

This doesn't have anything to do with files having the .RUN extension (extensions are irrelevant) the dialog is displayed for any file that has the executable bit set (+x).