Re: bugs & press

[Diego Escalante Urrelo <diegoe gnome org>]

I understand she's using sshfs instead of sftp with nautilus?

iirc, sshfs is just a hack to mount sftp somewhere in your tree.
nautilus' sftp:// works the same and is -i guess- much easier to setup.

I would advise her to try to use nautilus connect to server (File ->
connect to server -> SSH).

El mié, 14-10-2009 a las 13:12 -0600, Stormy Peters escribió:
> 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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