Now after having tried Chrome and Firefox as well I can confirm that
it is not a Browser issue. With all of them I cannot submit a remote
http URL. The GTKFileChooser window does not accept it.
Are you really sure that GTKFileChooser supports remote files?
Robert
On 4 July 2013 23:05, Robert Orzanna <orschiro gmail com> wrote:
> Now I understand it. Thus it is a problem of Chromium. Interesting.
>
> Can someone of you confirm that issue, e.g. by trying to upload an
> image from the web to imgur.
>
> Maybe it is just here on my system that it does not work.
>
> I am running Arch Linux with chromium 28.0.1500.52-1
>
> On 4 July 2013 22:52, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
>> GTK+ is the library that provides that window. The window is known as
>> "GtkFileChooser".
>>
>> When Chromium says "please open a GtkFileChooser", it provides a set of
>> options about how to return the results. One of these options is "do I want
>> to get a URI back (file:///usr/share/pixmaps/google.png,
>> http://google.com/google.png, etc.) or do I want a file path back
>> (/usr/share/pixmaps/google.png)"
>>
>> GtkFileChooser does not hand Chromium back the file's contents. It simply
>> hands it back the URI or file path. Chromium would need to somehow open the
>> URI it gets back. Obviously, Chromium can open http/https URIs using its own
>> networking stack, but for whatever reason, it chooses not to toggle on that
>> functionality.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Robert Orzanna <orschiro gmail com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for your responses.
>>>
>>> Ritesh is talking about gvfs, you, Jasper, about gtk. Could you
>>> clarify how they work together?
>>>
>>> As for the application:
>>>
>>> Generally I need this feature when trying to upload something onto a
>>> website using Chromium. Pressing the upload button on the website then
>>> opens the "Open file" window [1]. However, I am not sure which program
>>> provides this window. As for the file manager, I am using Nautilus.
>>>
>>> So, is there any way how I can tell the window to accept remote files?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Robert
>>>
>>> [1] http://i.imgur.com/gF693yq.png
>>>
>>> On 4 July 2013 18:34, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
>>> > Well, GtkFileChooser can support remote files (there's a flag for it),
>>> > but
>>> > only if the application can understand it. The app is returned either a
>>> > filename (which is local-only) or a URI which it has to use Gio to
>>> > implement. I don't know what app you're using, but it has to flip the
>>> > switch
>>> > to enable URIs in GtkFileChooser, and then be able to interpret the URI
>>> > returned.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On 02-Jul-2013 6:18 PM, "Robert Orzanna" <orschiro gmail com> wrote:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Hello there,
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Is it possible to implement support for providing remote files to the
>>> >> > location window?
>>> >> >
>>> >> > I am talking about this window: http://i.imgur.com/gF693yq.png
>>> >> >
>>> >> > This would be very useful for uploading remote files to websites in a
>>> >> > browser session.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Regards
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Robert
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>>> >>
>>> >> This comes from gvfs ( https://wiki.gnome.org/gvfs) not gtk.
>>> >>
>>> >> Cheers
>>> >> ritz
>>> >>
>>> >>
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>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Jasper
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jasper