Comment 39 for bug 1714518

Thanks Daniel, I will take another look when I'm back in the office with
the network.

On Fri, 15 Jun 2018, 21:40 Daniel Del Pino, <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Hi Jon, Vikrant
>
> In my case it did working. I found the access in "Another locations"
> section. I share a reference image (Sorry, my systems are in spanish):
>
> ** Attachment added: "gUbuntu.png"
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/1714518/+attachment/5153127/+files/gUbuntu.png
>
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>
> 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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