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

[Ross Gammon]

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will get the fix when updating to the next release. As in this case, the
bug also exists in the still supported stable releases (Xenial and
Trusty), it is necessary to follow the Stable Release Update (SRU)
process in order to fix the problem in those releases.

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- A [Regression Potential] section with a discussion about potential regressions

Then two patches that fix the problem are required, one for Xenial, and
one for Trusty. The process will then ensure that there will be no
serious regressions for users of the Stable releases.

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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:
  Won't Fix

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

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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

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