Re: bugs & press

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

Stormy,

I think your mighty powers have solved somehow it already. :-)

I just mounted a remote server with sshfs and both gedit and gnumeric
can load and save files.

I'm running the beta Karmic Koala so GNOME 2.28

Jaap

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 21:12, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:
> She says:
>
>> Carla Schroder also commented on her status:
>>
>> "Hi Stormy, the problem apps are Gedit and Gnumeric. It's consistent no
>> matter what distro they're installed on.
>>
>> Here's the short story: Gedit will not save to a SSHFS share, it gives
>> this error message:
>> 'Could not save the file /home/carla/sshfs/easylist.
>> txt.
>>
>> You do not have the permissions necessary to save the file. Please check
>> that you typed the location correctly and try again.'
>>
>> Sometimes disabling 'Create a backup copy before saving' cures it,
>> sometimes not.
>>
>> Gnumeric will not save to an SSHFS share. The save fails with an
>> 'Operation not permitted' message. I can use File-Save As once and save it
>> under a new name. Then subsequent saves fail.
>>
>> I didn't keep a record of the bug reports or forum discussions on this,
>>  there are many. This bug report is similar to my issue, and typical of what
>> I remember reading:
>>
>> http://www.facebook.com/l/;https://bugs.launchpad.net/sshfs-mounter/+bug/34813
>>
>> If you can fix this you have mighty powers. I didn't bother pursuing it
>> any further; ordinarily I would look for a workaround or file a bug report,
>> but that didn't seem like it would accomplish anything in this case."
>
> Stormy
>
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma <jaap haitsma org> wrote:
>>
>> I'd be surprised that this is the case. Gedit and Gnumeric both use
>> gio/gvfs at least in their latest releases. I'd be very surprised if
>> that is broken because in that case almost no GNOME app would be able
>> to save to a network share
>>
>> So maybe best to ask her which version she is running of GNOME and which
>> distro
>>
>> Jaap
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 19:25, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:
>> > Carla Schroder is a press person who's been pretty friendly towards us.
>> > Any
>> > way we could get this bug fixed and then send her an email? Maybe she'd
>> > write about it ...
>> >
>> > (And please don't send her any emails of "it's already fixed if she'd
>> > just
>> > do this" or "it won't be fixed because ..." or ...)
>> >
>> > Stormy
>> >
>> > From Facebook:
>> >
>> > Carla Schroder Yet one more reason Gnome is annoying and broken: Gedit
>> > and
>> > Gnumeric will not save to network shares. Many old bug reports languish.
>> >
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