emacs process-environment under gnome

[phorminx]

When I start emacs under gnome using gnome's application menu, the emacs 
process is started by root (ppid 1). I find this very confusing. Why is this 
so? For me, the main problem is that this way emacs (the variable 
process-environment) doesn't know anything about the environment variables I 
like to use (which are defined in my .bashrc).

As you might guess I am new to gnome (but I've used emacs for some time). What 
are other people doing? Start emacs via a shell script?

Thank you!
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