Hi, there used to be an "open as root" menu entry in the menu displayed when right-clicking on a directory. This feature was useful in many cases, when the user wanted to edit files with elevated permissions for example (rather than resorting to sudo in a terminal). Please make "Open as administrator" available through the right-click menu.

This has been implemented in Nemo (a fork of nautilus by the cinnamon team). Relevant commits:

  * Added "open as root" https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/commit/3ae9ef18cfdf562b233cc71d4c41907c893c15a6
  * Finished implementation of "open as root"  https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/commit/cbf59615a77f1afaf31882fa78543edd70b32fff
  * Changed position of open terminal and open as root https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/commit/edab84c99de1a9dedfbb4855e988288bcad0c5df
  * Call nemo rather than xdg-open when invoking open-as-root https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/commit/7cd8b48ec7977f7666a0fd33e4d05f73f9b5a55f
  * Hide Open As Root if we're already in an elevated window.  https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/commit/0a48f34f09d701a34f754139dbf614969a297fbe

There should be a very visible banner informing the user nautilus is running as root. This has been implemented too:

  * Show a banner reminding the user they have elevated privileges and bad things could happen, when nemo is open as root https://github.com/mtwebster/nemo/commit/2a302702555042fac002eeb6288a5f3532c2e5ec

Please consider implementing this, the linked commits should get most work done. Thanks