Gnome do does not open external media (if not yet 'mounted')

[Nathan]

I have several external (sftp, ftp, smb, ...) bookmark locations.

When I summon gnome-do and search for them they come in the list. I can execute the action on them, but nothing happens.

If I then open it via Locations -> Bookmarks -> ... they open

If I search them again in gnome-do: they open

If I "unmount" them and try it again with gnome-do: no luck.

This is my main problem to not remove the main menu from my panel... (since I need to go to locations->bookmarks to open them)

I do have gnome-do 0.6.1.0

[Γουργιώτης Γιώργος (aka Gourgi) (gourgi)]

i confirm this for both ftp and smb bookmarks
i use GNOME Do 0.7.95.1

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

This is a problem with xdg-open (which is used by Do to launch URIs) and not Do.

$ xdg-open "smb://smbserver/www/"
Error showing url: The specified location is not mounted

$ nautilus "smb://smbserver/www/" -> works

Digging through the Nautilus source I can see they check if it is mounted, and do a mount if it is not. It seems like maybe xdg-open is checking if it is mounted before calling the appropriate application (Nautilus). Please file a bug report with their maintainers.

[Philip Peitsch (philip-peitsch)]

I've raised the issue here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21728