gnome "mounted" network shares

[Erik Bågfors]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 02:34:31 -0500, volvoguy <volvoguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:21:27 +0100, Erik Bågfors <zindar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > If you use a gnome-vfs aware application it should just work.  You'll
> > find them all on the left side of the open dialog.
> 
> Yep. I see that now in a few apps - like gedit and rhythmbox.
> 
> > However, all applications in ubuntu are not gnome-vfs aware. I just
> > tried to open files with gedit and that's not a problem, totem also
> > seams to work etc. Opening with OOo, firefox, "Image viewer" (which is
> > eog) doesn't.
> >
> > I think I've read about patches to OOo that will add it so maybe in
> > hoary this will happen?
> 
> Interesting. Is it a goal for Ubuntu or Gnome developers (I realize
> those overlap sometimes) to make the apps in a default install use
> gnome-vfs, or is that an issue for the application developers to fix?
> 
> The Gimp for instance doesn't seem to be gnome-vfs aware, and the app
> that initially started my confusion was Muine, which I realize isn't a
> supported app.
> 
> It sounds like the best way to use remote shares is still the old
> fstab and mount stuff for now.
> 

The current version of gtk-sharp does not include gnome-vfs. So muine
and other mono-apps will not include it until gtk-sharp moves along.
Which it has done btw, cvs head now include gnome-vfs but no gtk-sharp
release has been made with it.

/Erik