[Bug 1714518] [NEW] GTK+3 doesn't show FUSE network shares in file chooser

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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

** Affects: gtk
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Affects: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Colin Leroy (colin-colino)
         Status: In Progress


** Tags: patch
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GTK+3 doesn't show FUSE network shares in file chooser
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1714518
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