error message when sshfs not installed could be better

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 23:07 +0000, James Westby wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: tomboy
>
> Hi,
>
> When setting up ssh syncing when sshfs is not installed there
> is a dialog that tells you to install sshfs and FUSE. On Ubuntu
> this could be made more specific, telling the user the
> exact package to install. It could also install it for them, but
> I guess that is a harder problem.

Indeed, the required steps are

  - install sshfs
  - add the user to the fuse group (Sytem->Administration->Users and
    Groups can do this).
  - Restart the session.

It's a lot to put in to the dialog, but some pointers would help.
Perhaps it could be put in to a help document and a reference put in
the dialog instead.

Thanks,

James

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=553078

There is an extra confusion if sshfs *is* installed, but the user is not in the fuse group: fusermount cannot be run, but the SSH syncing option is simply not available. It would be helpful if the warning dialog could distinguish between sshfs not being installed and not having appropriate permissions (in my case I'm a user on a large Ubuntu system at work, and hence not in the fuse group: fusermount's permissions are problematic for Tomboy users who aren't their own sysadmins)

It's worse in 9.10 (tested on the netbook-remix release). fuse is installed by default, but sshfs is not. The GUI error in 9.10 just says that the sync failed, and the log just has an "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error.