[Bug 1714518] Re: GTK+3 doesn't show FUSE/GVFS, smb (SMB/CIFS), sftp (SFTP/SSH) network shares in file chooser

[Norbert]

** Also affects: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Description changed:

  Steps to reproduce:
  1. Install any Gtk3 application such as Firefox or Chromium.
  2. Mount network location through fstab or file-manager ("smb://" = SMB/CIFS, "sftp://" = SFTP/SSH and so on)
- 3. Try to save file to the remote location from Gtk3 application.
+ 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
  
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  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

** Description changed:

  Steps to reproduce:
- 1. Install any Gtk3 application such as Firefox or Chromium.
+ 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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Title:
  GTK+3 doesn't show FUSE/GVFS, smb (SMB/CIFS), sftp (SFTP/SSH) network
  shares in file chooser

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