Ticket #333 (closed enhancement: fixed)

Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

Gobby should support network locations in open/save

Reported by: phil Owned by: armin
Priority: normal Milestone: Gobby 0.4.91
Component: Gobby Version:
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Launchpad Bug: Bug 179359

Description

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

Change History

Changed 5 years ago by 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?

Changed 5 years ago by 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.

Changed 5 years ago by armin

  • milestone set to Gobby 0.4.91

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.

Changed 5 years ago by launchpad

  • launchpad_bug set to 179359

Updating Launchpad bug reference

Changed 4 years ago by armin

  • status changed from new to closed
  • resolution set to fixed

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

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