[GNC] GNUcash 3.2 file open issue

[David Carlson]

I think that David Cousens is closing in on the problem.  I have seen that
GnuCash 2.6.17 in Ubuntu 16.04 cannot always see network mounted servers,
but on my LAN it appears that it is important to assign the correct domain
name when mounting the server with Nautilus.

David Carlson

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 8:00 PM, David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
wrote:

> John,
>
> I'm not really sure what GIMP uses as a UI toolkit. I showed the Libre-
> Office one primarily because on my system it was almost identical in
> appearance and function to the dialog window from Gnucash apart from
> the missing USB mount and network mounts. I have explored a few other
> (non GTK) apps I use and whether they see the network an USB mounts is
> highly variable. As another user pointed out it isn't exactly a show
> stopper as you can always transfer a file elsewhere using Nemo or the
> OS facilities.
>
> I'm also not very familiar with GTK3 either at this stage. I would
> guess they wrap the basic OS file and network access routines. I'll
> have a bit of a dig around the documentation and see if I can unearth
> anything useful. Firefox which uses GTK3 has reported network access
> issues in its file dialog on AskUbuntu (https://askubuntu.com/questions
> /764272/upload-dialogs-for-firefox-and-chrome-now-differ-ffs-doesnt-
> include-network-d). This post on unix  stack exchange, https://unix.sta
> ckexchange.com/questions/198996/prevent-the-gtk-file-dialog-from-
> listing-mount-points,  indicates that there is a way of stopping GTK
> from accessing mounted devices by the udev configuration, so maybe I
> can use the info to enable it. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/3
> 04345 for Audacious also reports similar problems and a fix.
>
> Will give it a try later today. I have some of the network mounts done
> in fstab and others for devices which may or may not be available using
> autofs so that may also be a source for differences within Linux.
>
> David Cousens
>
> On Fri, 2018-07-27 at 16:50 -0700, John Ralls wrote:
> > David,
> >
> > LibreOffice has it's own GUI toolkit; it can wrap Gtk or Qt or it can
> > use its own dialogs. Are you sure that GIMP is on Gtk3? I thought
> > that they were still working on converting.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
> >
> >
> > > On Jul 27, 2018, at 3:46 PM, David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.co
> > > m> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi John,
> > >
> > > Have posted it as Bug 796789 for V3.2. Other users with other OS
> > > and GnuCash
> > > versions might like to comment on behavior on their systems which
> > > may help
> > > with tracking down the problem. Not sure whether it is a bug in
> > > Ubuntu and
> > > derivatives but Libre Office, GIMP with similar dialogs all seem to
> > > be able
> > > to access the mounted USB sticks and network locations in the file
> > > open
> > > dialogs.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > David Cousens
> > >
> > >
> > >
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