Crashes when using root privileges

[knobydobs]

When running wiican from the terminal as such:
$ wiican
I get GConf errors, (I know these are harmless) and the wiican menu comes up but there is no notification in the bar.

I thought I would run wiican with root privileges using:
$ sudo wiican

When I do this, I get a traceback as follows:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/wiican", line 386, in <module>
    launch_indicator()
  File "/usr/local/bin/wiican", line 345, in launch_indicator
    wiican = WiicanIndicator()
  File "/usr/local/bin/wiican", line 144, in __init__
    self.__notificator = Notificator('wiican')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wiican/ui/notificator.py", line 64, in __init__
    NOTIF_PATH), NOTIF_IFACE)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 241, in get_object
    follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 248, in __init__
    self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 180, in activate_name_owner
    self.start_service_by_name(bus_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 278, in start_service_by_name
    'su', (bus_name, flags)))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/notify-osd exited with status 1