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Bug 580162 - Show remote mounts in GtkFileChooser
Show remote mounts in GtkFileChooser
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: GtkFileChooser
2.16.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
Federico Mena Quintero
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-04-24 19:04 UTC by Erika Ahlswede
Modified: 2011-09-12 16:14 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Erika Ahlswede 2009-04-24 19:04:53 UTC 
Given that Gio allows any program, regardless of Gio use, to access remote files, is there any reason why the GTK filechooser doesn't always show remote mounts? 

Given that browsing into the mount with nautilus and opening a file with an arbitrary program works fine, it seems like this would be a good thing to support.
Comment 1 Jeremy Bicha 2011-09-03 01:29:37 UTC 
Could we please switch the default so that applications get remote support in the filechooser unless devs opt out?
Comment 2 Federico Mena Quintero 2011-09-12 16:14:18 UTC 
In the file chooser's terms, "remote file" means "is not file://" - i.e. http, ssh, etc.

We can't default to allowing *those* arbitrary URIs to get passed to apps, as they may not know what to do with them.  GIO and FUSE mounts are rather orthogonal to this.

(Once something is FUSE-mounted, it *is* part of the normal file system as far as Unix apps are concerned - i.e. "not remote".)