Ubuntu OpenOffice.org using gvfs fuse now
As of openoffice.org 1:3.0.1-5ubuntu1 in Ubuntu Jaunty OOo will be using gvfs fuse instead of gnome-vfs or gio. This is because both gnome-vfs and gio support in OOo is buggy. Currently gnome-vfs fails to save documents properly and enabling gio causes OOo to not start at all. Of course using gvfs fuse has exposed numerous bugs as well, before gvfs 1.1.8 it did not support ftruncate well enough for OOo to save files. It does work now but there are still a few bugs with saving to ftp and webdav.
What is the exact difference between gvfs and gio? I thought they were the same.
There are three parts to the puzzle gnome-vfs, gio, and gvfs. gnome-vfs is the old vfs api which is now deprecated. gio is the new glib vfs api. gvfs is the userspace vfs designed to work with gio. Basically with the new OOo packages I am using the gvfs fuse (filesystem in userspace), which looks like just another part of your system, to do network io since both the gnome-vfs and gio api support in OOo are too buggy.
Hi Chris,
Glad to see your blog. Interestingly, one of my guys over here tried opening and ODT across SFTP and it borked on him, guess now I know why.
Cheers.
msian_tux_lover
Yea, it should work once openoffice.org 1:3.0.1-5ubuntu2 has built and is in Jaunty. There is currently a issue on the buildd so it probably won’t happen until tomorrow.