If it's cumbersome, you could always edit the sudoers file to make things easier (although it's not a great idea if you're not using it often). If you do that,

If it's cumbersome, you could always edit the sudoers file to make things easier (although it's not a great idea if you're not using it often). If you do that, then you would have the best of both worlds - being able to sudo on terminal from your standard account (with or without password, as desired) while also using it with lower privileges for all GUI applications.