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That was also my take. If it's something you should be able to edit, your user should have permissions to do that. Jumping to running as root every time has lots of unintended consequences.
I do think a functionally similar idea would be a button to "take ownership" (grant "/r/w/x") of a file that would prompt for root password. That way things don't run as root that shouldn't. Would that be a good compromise between Linux permissions and Windows workflow?
Regarding formatting a drive, whatever program you are doing that in should ask for root p/w when performing that operation. If it just refuses because of permissions that seems like a bug.
Isn't that a feature that's already implemented? The alternative is you could run chown -R [username] . in the correct directory.
That's what I'm thinking. A menu entry that just runs chown -R [username] on whatever you click is the idea
That's would work but it would be kind of dangerous