Re: Opening remote files in GNOME (was Re: Announcing gnomevfs-mount 0.0.1 (very first version).)

[Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com>]

G�r Farkas wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 09:46 +0200, Fernando Herrera wrote:
>
> > Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 01:26:37AM +0200, Carlos Perell�r�>> escribi�> 
> >
> > > Users don't understand why they are not able to open files from
> > > remote locations on non GNOME applications. In fact, I don't know
> > > about any GNOME application that it's able to edit a remote file
> > > directly.
> >
> > gedit ssh://username myhost com/folder/file.txt
> >
> > works for me :)
>
> not for me. (gedit-2.8.0 here)
>
> yes, you can OPEN the file, but you can not WRITE to the file. and
> imho "that's able to edit a remote file directly", by editing he 
> means also saving the changes.
>
> seems that gedit only uses gnome-vfs to read, not to write. the only
> app that is able to write to remote locations for now is nautilus.

It uses gnome-vfs both for writing and reading but iirc there was some 
issues with checking if a remote file is writeable for some backends so 
they choose to make all remote files read-only for now.

Some of the GEdit folks can probably fill in with correct background 
information for this though.

Best Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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