LumpyCustard, the program aborts at the very start unless it has root priviledges. When you start it from the menu, it is started using gksu, which means that if you've given your password to get root priviledges in the near past, you don't need to do that again. Since the program runs as root all the time, it doesn't ask for root password again when it removes stuff.
This is not a particularly good design, and it will be fixed after intrepid is released, but it's such a big change that it won't make for intrepid. -- system-cleaner not installed on clean install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288607 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
