GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 162213
new open file dialog makes automount directories not accessible
Last modified: 2005-04-28 23:59:34 UTC
when using an automounter (amd, autofs), symlinks are created on the fly, and as a result with this new interface, it is not possible to select a file which is in an automount volume if not accessed before. A simple solution would be to give the possible to enter the filename by using a text interface.
First, this is definitely neither "High" nor "Major". Then, it's a GTK+ issue since GIMP just uses the file chooser from GTK+. Reassigning accordingly. Bug was originally reported against GIMP 2.2.0
You can "enter the filename using a text interface". Try Ctrl-L.
Hey! In case you have not perceived, being able to type in a file name here is a work-around, not a solution. You have developers who spent yers bug-fixing things so that a minimum fucntionality for a thing as simple as automount would be reached and you say that "Nah...GTK+ programs do not need automount". This would be to big a step backwards not only for GTK but for all the Gnome projet, and for extension Free Software. You can't tell to people willing to leave proprietary software, but with little knowledge of computer something like - "No, you have to either learn to type ctrl + L here, or go to an xterm and type mount xxxx, to be able to read your CD-ROM, because as there are these ways available, the developers decided it was enough." I will not reopen this myself, but I strongly suggest that you reconsider doing it, and I do not actually think it is only "normal" severity.
No need to get agitated. I simply commented on the availability of the "simple solution" pointed out by the bug reporter. And no need to reopen this bug, since it hasn't been closed.
There's already a bug for "I want the text entry back" (bug -136541) but in general, I think a text entry is an awful way to present automounted directories to users (what are you going to do, give them a sheet of paper with the paths written on it?), and thus automounted directories should not be a consideration for making the text entry more prominent. There might already be a bug filed that sysadmins should be able to create bookmarks global to all users ... which would be a much more useful way of presenting the concept.
Thanks for the Ctrl-L workarround. And despite people saying that an all graphical solution is the way to go, I still like to give the path to a directory or a file (not by writting it on a sheet of paper but by using email...), and I really prefer to type a path using completion that having to move the mouse everywhere. Now my first reaction after spending at least 10 minutes trying to access my picture was to switch back to the previous version of gimp.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 136541 ***
I'm replying to comment #5 in 136541. Suffice it to say here that "global bookmarks" or the like are *not* a solution to this problem.