How to add an item to the gnome menu that starts gedit as root?

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Published on 2010-05-08T21:58:23Z Indexed on 2010/05/08 22:08 UTC
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I right clicked the gnome menu and clicked on "Edit menus"

Then I clicked on "New item".

Type: Application
Name: gedit as root
Command: gksudo gedit
Comment: Launch gedit as root.

When I click it, the gksudo dialog appears as expected. But then... nothing.

How should I be doing this? (From the menu - I know it's trivial from the terminal)

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