Comment 119 for bug 34813

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

> Don't you want Ubuntu to integrate smoothly into a Windows-centric environment?

using GNOME to edit smb document over gvfs mount works fine which is the recommended desktop way, the issue is with fstab command line mounts there

> Linux *is* for power users.

Good, so power users should know how to use an another editor or workaround the issue

> Next, SAMBA is hardly a power user thing. If you're on ANY kind of network/LAN, you are no doubt using samba or the Microsoft equivalent of it.

Right, that's why GNOME can mount smb shares in an easy way and editing txt using gedit works just fine there, the issue is when you use command line to mount samba mounts in a system specific way

> but then refuse to fix things as it's much sexier to implement new features than work on bugs. Or my other favorite is how they throw back the "why don't YOU fix it and submit a patch".

the comment is not very useful when you comment on a distribution bug tracker and not to the software writer and the issue is a lack of manpower one