open file dialog does not have mounts

Bug #1061600 reported by xoristzatziki
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
One Hundred Papercuts
Triaged
Undecided
Unassigned
firefox (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Unlike most other programs in which open file dialog lists (to the left) mounted filesystems, firefox does not. The mounted share can be selected by going in home folder, -> showing hidden files-> selecting .gvfs -selecting the mounted share. If this is by design (not to allow mounted shares) then we shouldn't be able to select any .gvfs directory also. This also affects pages with forms in which we have to attach a file. (We cannot attach a file scanned and saved in an open common samba shared directory.)

>uname -a
Linux ilias-desktop 3.2.0-31-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 7 16:16:45 UTC 2012
with Gnome classic (Greek enviroment)
>lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Dario Ruellan (druellan) wrote :

Hi xoristzatziki. I believe you're referring to "bookmarked" paths of mounted filesystems, that are usually listed on the left, just below "Places".
I can confirm those bookmarks are not listed in Firefox's open dialog, but you can see them on other apps, like Gedit's open dialog.

Seems that is not Firefox's fault, but the way the dialog (GTK2?) is implemented.

Revision history for this message
Dario Ruellan (druellan) wrote :

I'm going to bring this to the Papercuts Project, but I believe is not fixable since, AFAIK Firefox still uses GTK+2, which is deprecated.

Changed in gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: New → Triaged
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
milestone: none → raring-misc
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