Took a look, turns out bamf is not giving us the right desktop file for synaptic, its giving us synaptic-kde.desktop instead of synaptic.desktop - which means its trying to launch without root. so i'm assigning this one over to jason + bamf
** Also affects: bamf Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: bamf Assignee: (unassigned) => Jason Smith (jassmith) ** Changed in: bamf Status: New => Triaged -- Can't launch apps like synaptic with root privileges from launch bar https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599298 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs