Comment 9 for bug 43328

Although I do agree with your argument, I still believe it's important to continue removing the need for console input (and eventually fully replacing it, and disallowing writing to it by default or something).

The reason for that is that the Administrator would not expect that possible malicious software that runs in the background as his user, can harm the system when he's logged in (for example when trying to install anti such software). With the editable terminal widget, I suspect that it's perfectly doable for such software to cause damage to the system easily.

Although, yes, a root xterm or terminal makes this possible too. But in this case the Administrative user, while being logged in, is perfectly aware of that situation. With a standard Ubuntu tool like the software updater exposing the exact same dangers, this is a lot less clear to the Administrative user.