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Bug 553078 - error message when sshfs not installed could be better
error message when sshfs not installed could be better
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: tomboy
Classification: Applications
Component: General
0.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: Future
Assigned To: Tomboy Maintainers
Tomboy Maintainers
gnome[moved-to-github]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-09-21 02:17 UTC by Greg Grossmeier
Modified: 2017-07-31 12:42 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24



Description Greg Grossmeier 2008-09-21 02:17:05 UTC
Originally opened on Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/bugs/183902
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When setting up ssh syncing when sshfs is not installed there
is a dialog that tells you to install sshfs and FUSE. On Ubuntu
this could be made more specific, telling the user the
exact package to install. It could also install it for them, but
I guess that is a harder problem.

It should also give the user all the instructions needed. I
think a session restart may be needed to complete the
process, but I am not sure yet.

Thanks

--

Indeed, the required steps are

  - install sshfs
  - add the user to the fuse group (Sytem->Administration->Users and
    Groups can do this).
  - Restart the session.

It's a lot to put in to the dialog, but some pointers would help.
Perhaps it could be put in to a help document and a reference put in
the dialog instead.

Thanks,

James
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Comment 1 Sandy Armstrong 2008-09-21 13:27:16 UTC
Yeah, this would be nice.  It's possible that some parts of it could be solved with pacakgekit.  The only difficulty is that it's a pain to write a bunch of distro-dependent code (which we already do, actually).

And we could definitely improve the text of the error.  Targetting for next cycle.
Comment 2 Sandy Armstrong 2009-02-16 19:28:09 UTC
Not going to do this for 0.13.x. Targetting Future.
Comment 3 Alex Tereschenko 2016-10-03 19:53:14 UTC
Reclassifying as enhancement, which is actually is IMHO.
Comment 4 André Klapper 2017-07-31 12:42:54 UTC
The Tomboy team has moved from GNOME Bugzilla to GitHub for bug reports and feature requests: 
      https://github.com/tomboy-notes/tomboy/issues/
Closing this report as NOTGNOME as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping (bug 781054) to keep tasks in one place. Please feel free to transfer this task to GitHub if this task is still valid in a recent Tomboy version. 
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