elementary / elementary/files

Files in Administrator Mode has no visual cue about it being a privileged session.

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Description

### What Happened?

Running Files in Administrator mode does not indicate that the window is actually able to perform privileged actions. Other file managers do provide a warning, like Thunar
![Screenshot from 2023-05-10 14 23 45](https://github.com/elementary/files/assets/1703429/88fd8b8e-b97a-4999-99e5-abce0b722d6f)
or PCManFM
![Screenshot from 2023-05-10 14 21 32](https://github.com/elementary/files/assets/1703429/1b7d0a8e-0006-4074-89b3-ae421c06dac6).

### Steps to Reproduce

1. Open Files as Administrator
2. ~Get on the floor~
3. ~Everybody walks the dinosaur~

### Expected Behavior

To have some sort of warning about it to prevent unintended reckless behaviour.

### OS Version

7.x (Horus)

### Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

### Log Output

_No response_

### Hardware Info

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