(In reply to comment #15) > Maybe one last reason: if gksudo or kdesudo is not present, winetricks will use > sudo. Fedora doesn't provide gksudo, neither kdesudo. If winetricks is launched > through the menu and need to mount an ISO image, the sudo prompt will be > obviously invisible to the user and then discarded... How will you manage it > then? On Ubuntu, gksudo and kdesudo are just symlinks to gksu and kdesu, upstream tools that work with both su and sudo. I'll file a bug upstream to get them to use those instead for better cross-distro compatibility.