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(Get the code!)
"The easiest way to "open" files with administrative rights without nautilus-gksu is to run sudo nautilus from the console."
The right command isn't "sudo nautilus", but "gksu nautilus", as Nautilus isn't a text-based application, but a graphical application.
Ontopic:
I'd also want to have this functionallity by default. The same goes for applications. I'd be nice to be able to right click (or left click for left handed people) on Gedit from the Applications menu and start is as root, so you'd be able to type some text and save it wherever you want to save it. Another example: Do a secundairy click on NVIDIA X Server Settings and start it as root, so you'd be able to save the settings to xorg.conf.
Why should someone have to enter the command line or Alt+F2 to run as something as root?