Comment 5 for bug 35027

Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Public bug report changed:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/35027
>
> Task: ubuntu nautilus
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
> Comment:
> Thank for your bug, it seems you list different issue which make not easy to reply to the bug. Your .tgz example is probably that it runs file-roller to extract it which is a different application and connect to the keyring

Right, so it seems that any applications that use the gnome file
selector are affected by this when I initiate an action that causes it
to open it tries the keyring. That is presumably because the file
selector has the bookmarks from Nautilus on the right hand side which it
tries to open to get some info about.

> When you get the cancel is not clear. And what remote system it tries to connect and when is not clear neither. Could you enumerate a suite of actions giving that issue?

So I've just reproduced it for myself and will describe the steps here:

1. First the control test:
  * I have no bookmarks in Nautilus
  * I start Gedit and go to Open File
  * I get the gnome file selector without any problems
2. Setting a bookmark
  * I open Natilus and press Ctrl+l to change location
  * I type in 'sftp://people.ubuntu.com/home/henrik
  * Nautilus connects without any questions (it's already in my keyring)
  * While logged in there I set a bookmark in Nautilus which also
appears in the 'Places' menu
3. Producing the bug:
  * I open Gedit again and Click 'Open'
  * I get a warning saying that Gedit wants to access my keyring
  * If I click 'Allow Once' there is no problem (and I'm sure Always
Allow would work as well)
  * If I click 'Deny' I am prompted for the password for that server
  * If I click Cancel I get the same questions again, but then finally I
get to the normal file selector
  * If I have 5 bookmarks I have to click Deny twice and Cancel twice
for each, a grand total of 20 times every time I try to open a file on
my local system ...

OK, so I could make life easier for myself by clicking 'Always Allow'
each time this occurred and the problem would gradually go away. I would
be able to edit remote files with Gedit and all would be sweet. The
point is I don't want to allow this action, because I see no need for
it. I don't see why I should allow gnome to log in to a remote server
when I'm just just trying to open a file on my system. If gnome is
talking to a remote server, what is it saying? Is it uploading all my
private emails to the directory which is live on the web? Probably not,
but as a careful user (the most prudent kind) I don't know that. That
only takes one more bug ...

Currently the only reliable workaround I have found is to have no
bookmarks and just type in the location each time.