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When a remote location is mounted with the "Connect to server..." option, the
location shows up in the open/save dialogs of a number of apps and it can be
used just like the normal filesystem. However some applications (including
GNOME programs) don't know about this connection, and files cannot be opened or
saved (when doubleclicked in nautilus, errors occur).
I quickly tested an ssh connection and got the following:
real GNOME programs (totem, eog, gedit work fine)
archive-manager: nothing happens, remote locations don't show up in open dialog
evince: can open files, but not possible to save to remote locations
tomboy: cannot export HTML notes
other commonly used programs:
openoffice: a username/password dialog is shown, but doesn't work with the
correct data
firefox: "don't know how to handle ssh://"
GIMP: "cannot open"
This is very user-unfriendly. Maybe it's better to mount remote
locations through FUSE so that all programs can work with these network
connections?
** Affects: gnome-vfs2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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gnome-vfs is not well integrated
https://bugs.beta.launchpad.net/bugs/116604
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