Nautilus.smb -> application

[Leslie Viljoen]

Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> On wo, 2005-06-29 at 12:15 +0200, Leslie Viljoen wrote:
> 
> 
>>When you open an SMB share in Nautilus and then double-click a .doc
>>file,
>>OpenOffice opens but then cannot find the file (file .....smb:.....
>>does not exist).
> 
> 
> Opening it in nautilus, means using the Gnome virtual file system.
> Unfortunately, OpenOffice does not onderstand this. If you want
> *complete transparent* access to samba shares, you should mount it.
> 
> You can use http://www.ubuntulinux.nl/files/addsamba to aid you in
> adding samba shares to /etc/fstab if you do not understand (or care)
> about the details of mount. 
> 

Thanks, I know how to do these things manually, I just thought this
should be fairly automatic. Especially since Nautilus APPEARS to
offer this functionality and then the applications bomb out when
you try to use it.

Many Linux applications make use of completely different file selectors
which causes no end of confusion. The X11 apps are terrible! Try opening
a file in XPDF for example. I know what a job it would be to fix all
this... even if just OOo worked, that would be quite a victory. Perhaps
the nautilus guys could be persuaded to provide a mount-in-regular-fs
option.

With OOo I suppose upstream would need to do it. No doubt they are
trying to keep their interface the same under many platforms.

Les