what happened to nautilius gksudo feature

Previous versions of Ubuntu allowed a nautilus extension that using gksu/gksudo you could edit a config file directly without having to enter a terminal. For v8.04 this seems to be broken. I have installed the package nautilus-gksu and it failed to work. gksu/gksudo apparently works from the terminal. I have removed the package and reinstalled and removed the package and installed via apt-get but still no joy. It is much easier to click on a file, right mouse click, choose Open as Administrator, enter your password , edit the file and save than opening a terminal CD to a directory the type in sudo gedit etc. Any time you have to type instead of point and click there is a greater chance for error, especially with my failing eyesight.

Thanks

RJR