Gobby should support network locations in open/save

[phil]

The open dialog used in Gobby should support network locations to ease teamwork.

[phil]

Now actually gedit does only provide this through an "open location" menu item, not through the Gtk file open dialog, so there probably isn't a generic solution available. Armin?

[armin]

gedit already allows selecting non-local files with the filechooser, at least when using the GnomeVFS filechooser backend. We could also allow selecting non-local files in the file chooser and use gnome-vfs to open those files. But:

• We should load/save the files asynchronously, because it may take some time when transferring a file through the network. This is more than just replacing non-gnome-vfs calls with gnome-vfs ones.
• gnome-vfs is currently being replaced by gio or gvfs, respectively. I would love to already use gio for this, because it belongs to glib (not depending on GTK+) and therefore is more likely to be useful on Windows and Mac. The gio API is not yet stable, however, and this would require at least glib 2.15.

[armin]

When used with a recent enough GTK+, Gobby 0.4.90 supports remote shares via gio. This can be accessed from the FileChooser? if a remote location has been added to the Places menu in Gnome.

We should probably still add an "Open Location" option.

[launchpad]

Updating Launchpad bug reference

[armin]

Gobby 0.4.91 now also has an "Open Location" dialog to open arbitrary URIs.