** Also affects: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
Steps to reproduce:
1. Install any Gtk3 application such as Firefox or Chromium.
2. Mount network location through fstab or file-manager ("smb://" = SMB/CIFS,
"sftp://"; = SFTP/SSH and so on)
- 3. Try to save file to the remote location from Gtk3 application.
+ 3. Try to save/open file to/from the remote location from Gtk3 application.
Expected results:
* user is able to find network folder and save/open file to/from it with
GtkFileChooser dialog
Actual results:
* user is unable to find network folder and save/open file to/from it with
GtkFileChooser dialog and many user applications are affected
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Original bug description is below:
GTK+3 doesn't show FUSE network shares in file chooser - it used to do
so in GTK+2, and the GTK+3 documentation still mentions it should do it.
In the mean time, every user of every application switching to GTK+3 --
including Chromium, at some point between 58 and 60 -- (a change which
happened in 16.04 LTS!!), loses the functionality to open or save
directly to a network share.
I had chosen 16.04 LTS for deploying our workstations at work, and my 50
users have been suddenly unable to do a simple operation they have to do dozens
of times a day.
They now have to "buffer" these files to their local filesystem when saving
them and before uploading them, and then copy them to the company's network
shares.
They were already a little bit grumpy when it stopped working with Firefox,
and are now really side-eyeing me when they apply updates and find Chromium
broken.
I have reported the bug upstream and provided a patch to fix this. I
hope you'll be able and willing to include it to Ubuntu's GTK+3 package.
Thanks in advance.
Colin
** Description changed:
Steps to reproduce:
- 1. Install any Gtk3 application such as Firefox or Chromium.
+ 1. Install any Gtk3 application such as Firefox or Chromium which use modern
file-chooser dialog.
2. Mount network location through fstab or file-manager ("smb://" = SMB/CIFS,
"sftp://"; = SFTP/SSH and so on)
3. Try to save/open file to/from the remote location from Gtk3 application.
Expected results:
* user is able to find network folder and save/open file to/from it with
GtkFileChooser dialog
Actual results:
* user is unable to find network folder and save/open file to/from it with
GtkFileChooser dialog and many user applications are affected
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Original bug description is below:
GTK+3 doesn't show FUSE network shares in file chooser - it used to do
so in GTK+2, and the GTK+3 documentation still mentions it should do it.
In the mean time, every user of every application switching to GTK+3 --
including Chromium, at some point between 58 and 60 -- (a change which
happened in 16.04 LTS!!), loses the functionality to open or save
directly to a network share.
I had chosen 16.04 LTS for deploying our workstations at work, and my 50
users have been suddenly unable to do a simple operation they have to do dozens
of times a day.
They now have to "buffer" these files to their local filesystem when saving
them and before uploading them, and then copy them to the company's network
shares.
They were already a little bit grumpy when it stopped working with Firefox,
and are now really side-eyeing me when they apply updates and find Chromium
broken.
I have reported the bug upstream and provided a patch to fix this. I
hope you'll be able and willing to include it to Ubuntu's GTK+3 package.
Thanks in advance.
Colin
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Title:
GTK+3 doesn't show FUSE/GVFS, smb (SMB/CIFS), sftp (SFTP/SSH) network
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