Administrator Mode Arrives

mvmOS 1.6.0 brings an administrator mode to File Manager. If your Linux user may use sudo, right-click a folder, or the empty space inside one, and choose Open as root. After you confirm with your own Linux password, not the root password, a separate File Manager window opens where everything runs as root: browsing, copying, renaming, uploads, permission and owner changes, and files you open from it in the text editor, code editor or media viewer. Your other windows keep working as your own user. Like sudo, administrator access ends after 15 minutes without use. A countdown in the window's title bar badge shows the time left and starts again with every action, when the time runs out the next action simply asks for your password and continues, and a click on the badge leaves administrator mode at any time. Deleting in an administrator window is always permanent, because root cannot use your Trash, so File Manager asks you to confirm first. When a paste, rename, move to Trash or delete fails with a permission error, the list of failed items now also offers to repeat exactly those items as administrator. Apps that change the system outside their own folders, such as a service or a system user, can now clean up after themselves when they are uninstalled. The first app to use this is Local Display, which arrives in the Store today. Git Manager 1.9.0 gives GitHub Issues new Premium settings, opened from the settings button in its title bar. You decide what opening an issue does to your branch: stay on your current branch, which is now the default, switch to the issue's own branch only when you are on another issue's branch, or always switch as before. The issue list can be split into issues created by you, issues assigned to you and the rest, with an option to combine your own two groups into one, and with nothing selected every issue is listed together. Git Manager can also look for repositories in extra folders that you add in its settings, besides /var/www, /opt and the home folders, and creating an issue branch while you are on the default branch now offers a real choice between your local copy and the latest version from the remote. All new text is available in all nine supported languages.