Inconsistent bookmarking of mounted media or network shares Nautilus/GTK+

[Dario Ruellan]

Description:
Nautilus allows you to bookmark both mounted destinations and network shares. Nautilus chooses a name based on the actual folder, but other dialogs, as the file selector, shows the bookmark as a truncated path. Same result if you rename the bookmark.

What I expect:
Consistent naming on both Nautilus and file selectors.

What I get:
Some times the bookmark honors the naming on Nautilus, sometimes get listed as a path, and sometimes it is not listed at all.

To reproduce:
Open Nautilus and navigate to a shared network folder.
Bookmark the folder.
Open Gedit.
Select "Open"
The dialog shows the bookmark as a path instead of the name given on Nautilus.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks a lot for reporting this. Can someone send this upstream to Gnome?

[Timothy Arceri (t-fridey)]

There are two issues here:

1. Nautilus chooses a name based on the actual folder, but other dialogs, as the file selector, shows the bookmark as a truncated path.

2. Network location not appearing in the GTK File Chooser, this is already being tracked here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/304345

So we should use this bug report that track issue 1.

[Dario Ruellan (druellan)]

Thanks Timothy.

[Timothy Arceri (t-fridey)]

Hi Dario, Can you please provide some more information as I could not reproduce this.

1. What Ubuntu version as you running?
2. What type of network location are you accessing, smb, afp or something else?
3. If you could provide a screen shots of what you are seeing that might also be useful.

Thanks

[Dario Ruellan (druellan)]

Thanks Timothy. I don't know why I forgot to provide the version info, perhaps I thought I was using ubuntu-bug for the report.
Anyway, Its Ubuntu 12.04 and Nautilus 3.4.2.

I've tested it with two bookmarks. The first is a samba share to a Windows 7 folder containing spaces in the name (My Documents). The other is an external HD.

On the screenshot, I'm using a GTK3 dialog from Gedit 3.4.1. You can see that the samba bookmark is shown as a path, and the HD partition is missing from the bookmarks list (but listed as mounted media).
If I try the same using a GTK2 dialog from Firefox 17, the samba bookmark is shown just fine, but the mounted media is also missing.

So, in the case of the bookmark name shown as a path: seems a GTK3 regression. In the case of the missing mounted media bookmark: its by design or a bug ported from GTK2.

Hope that helps.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.