kate conflicts with gnome menu and samba

[larienna]

Ubuntu 11.04
Gnome 2.32.1

I have 2 problems with Kate related to opening files. I have embedded my application menu in the gnome classic tool bar that pop up when I move my mouse on the top because my netbook does not have much screen space.

If I open a file with the "File->recent files" Menu, I can do it bout twice. Then the third time, the pull down menu does not work and it's impossible for me to open a file.

Now I cannot use the open button because of the following problem. If I click on open a file through the menu or the button, , it display an empty file open dialog for like 5-10 min before finally displaying something. It seems to happen when my computer has mounted a drive of my other computer with samba. It is probably checking for something and taking a lot of time.

It could have been fixed in more recent version of Kate, but considering that this combination of situation might not happen often, I thought it could be worth it to file a bug.

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[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in kate.

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[larienna (ericp-ariel)]

Well, the problem is that I don't know if it's a bug with gnome, samba or kate. Or maybe a combination of those. The only thing I can do is give you version numbers of my software which should lead to the right package. Here is the version numbers I missed supplying:

Kate: Version 3.6.5

As for samba, I don't have the version because what is weird is that apparently samba is not installed (cannot find smbd and smbstatus), but I am mounting a windows drive from the Fstab using the samba driver with this line and it works.

//solyane/eric /media/solyane smbfs iocharset=utf8,credentials=/home/ericp/.smbcredentials,uid=1000 0 0

Maybe it's because samba is only use to emulate a netbeui service but is not required to connect via netbeui to another computer.

Anyways, considering that this bug seems to be a combination of events that will not happen to a lot of people, I was not expecting the bug to be fixed anytime soon. I'll probably have to let time do the work.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

Ubuntu 11.04 (natty) reached end-of-life on October 28, 2012.

I'm setting the status of this bug to 'Incomplete' as it's not seen any activity for some time. If this is still an issue when using a currently maintained release of Ubuntu then please let us know which one(s) otherwise this bug report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.