file-roller should use ~/.gvfs for non-local files

[Gavin Hamill]

Binary package hint: file-roller

#36498 provided a best-effort fix for the use of 'unrar' and friends with non-local files.

gvfs has brought with it the gvfs-fuse-daemon providing a bridge between the real filesystem and GNOME's idea of 'remote folders'. This daemon is installed as part of the default system.

#36498 is no longer adequate for modern usage. Copying a couple of megs of .ZIP for local extraction is passable, but it is completely unworkable when dealing with GB of remote .rar set.

file-roller should be intelligent enough to spot a "protocol://servername/path/to/file" prefix on a filename coming in from Nautilus or wherever and automatically switch to opening "~/.gvfs/protocol on servername/path/to/file" instead.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 29 21:39:29 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/file-roller
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: file-roller 2.22.3-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: file-roller
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for your report, likely known upstream, you can track it here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170334