Comment 30 for bug 1714518

Thank you to all for your work, from another "simple user" really looking
into this fix update :)

2018-02-16 15:20 GMT+01:00 Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden>:

> Jon, the changelog message said that this bug was fixed in bionic (which
> is Ubuntu 18.04 Alpha). The bug is not fixed in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
> "Trusty" yet.
>
> Maybe it's a bit more clear if you look at the bug page:
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/1714518
>
> I closed the Thunderbird task because we believe this bug can be fixed
> in the gtk+3.0 package without needing to update Thunderbird and several
> other packages.
>
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> duplicate bug report (1579543).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1714518
>
> Title:
> GTK+3 doesn't show FUSE/GVFS, smb (SMB/CIFS), sftp (SFTP/SSH) network
> shares in file chooser
>
> Status in GTK+:
> Fix Released
> Status in gtk+3.0 package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in gtk+3.0 source package in Trusty:
> Triaged
> Status in gtk+3.0 source package in Xenial:
> Triaged
> Status in gtk+3.0 source package in Artful:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. Install any Gtk3 application such as Firefox or Chromium which use
> modern file-chooser dialog.
> 2. Mount network location through fstab or file-manager ("smb://" =
> SMB/CIFS, "sftp://" = SFTP/SSH and so on)
> 3. Try to save/open file to/from the remote location from Gtk3
> application.
>
> Expected results:
> * user is able to find network folder and save/open file to/from it with
> GtkFileChooser dialog
>
> Actual results:
> * user is unable to find network folder and save/open file to/from it
> with GtkFileChooser dialog and many user applications are affected
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------
> Original bug description is below:
>
> GTK+3 doesn't show FUSE network shares in file chooser - it used to do
> so in GTK+2, and the GTK+3 documentation still mentions it should do
> it.
>
> In the mean time, every user of every application switching to GTK+3
> -- including Chromium, at some point between 58 and 60 -- (a change
> which happened in 16.04 LTS!!), loses the functionality to open or
> save directly to a network share.
>
> I had chosen 16.04 LTS for deploying our workstations at work, and my 50
> users have been suddenly unable to do a simple operation they have to do
> dozens of times a day.
> They now have to "buffer" these files to their local filesystem when
> saving them and before uploading them, and then copy them to the company's
> network shares.
> They were already a little bit grumpy when it stopped working with
> Firefox, and are now really side-eyeing me when they apply updates and find
> Chromium broken.
>
> I have reported the bug upstream and provided a patch to fix this. I
> hope you'll be able and willing to include it to Ubuntu's GTK+3
> package.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Colin
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