Comment 42 for bug 1714518

Canonical doesn't bother fixing anything. They are too busy breaking new
stuff. They expect __you__ to fix it for them.

On 06/18/2018 06:01 AM, Jon wrote:
> Ah, ok, that explains why it didn't work.. 😁
>
> Does anyone have any idea when 14.04LTS is going to get a patch? It's been
> months with nothing in sight.
>
> I thought installing an LTS meant issues would get some attention. Really
> enjoying the Linux experience overall but the lack of urgency in addressing
> a bug which is so annoying (used to work fine until one of the official
> updates broke the functionality) makes me hesitant to move more computing
> onto this platform.
>
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2018, 10:41 Colin Leroy, <email address hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> My PPA only provides packages for 16.04, because that's what we use at
>> work.
>>
>> --
>> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
>> duplicate bug report (1694129).
>> 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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