I would also add that even though asking for GTK3 applications like Chromium, Firefox, Thunderbird to call gtk_file_chooser_set_local_only(FALSE) seems like an easy fix, it is not:
when such applications then call for gtk_file_chooser_get_filename() (and _get_filenames), they could end up with NULL for remote files that are not fuse-mounted. Similarly, gtk_file_chooser_get_uri() (and _get_uris) behaves differently when local-only is set or not. With local-only set, _get_uri() returns a native file:/// path, without it returns a normal uri (smb:// ...) My understanding of the "show FUSE mounts in local-only mode" is that it helps numerous applications easily handle I/O with remote volumes without having to use GIO everywhere. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gtk+3.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1714518 Title: GTK+3 doesn't show FUSE network shares in file chooser Status in GTK+: Unknown Status in gtk+3.0 package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gtk/+bug/1714518/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
