sftp link support is missing

[Javier Lorenzana]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

Support for the SFTP protocol is missing on the Gnome Terminal.

HTTP, FTP and other protocols work just fine.

SFTP support is the reason I find myself using Konsole on a Gnome environment everyday at work.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-terminal 2.29.6-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 22 21:13:22 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_FR.utf8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately, we can't fix it because your description didn't include enough information. You may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem. We have instructions on debugging some types of problems at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures.
At a minimum, we need:
1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
2. the behavior you expected, and
3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).
Thanks!

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[Javier Lorenzana (skqr)]

Oh, I deal with bug reports daily, as I am a professional developer, and I can assure you, given common familiarity with the application, my description would've been quite enough.

However, let me make things clearer;
1) Open the Gnome Terminal; the default terminal emulation application in Ubuntu.
2) Type "echo http://bugs.launchpad.net". Hit "enter".
3) Right-click on the link, select "open link".

See how that works?

OK, now try this;
1) Once on the Gnome Terminal, type "echo sftp://some.server.with/files/in/it"
2) Place the pointer on top of the address - notice how the link's protocol is not entirely underlined; the terminal mistakes an SFTP link for an FTP one.

Please let me know if this is still not clear enough.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

this is fixed on gnome-terminal 2.30 with the following commit: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-terminal/commit/?id=6a6c1f044cf438970fbe23f5b2d927926a6900af ; the bug it's going to be fixed on lucid with the inclusion of 2.30 version of the package as soon as it's accepted there, bug for that is bug 553080

[Javier Lorenzana (skqr)]

Thank you very, very much for that information.

I'm really glad I'll finally be able to use the native terminal emulator again =)

[Javier Lorenzana (skqr)]

This is actually fixed, shouldn't it have been closed by now?