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S3 / S3-compatible / swift support

Asked by Schmirrwurst

Do a layer enabling to access external storage is already on the roadmap ?

Would be nice being able to add S3 as source in File, the same way you can add scp in nautilus...

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Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten) said : 		#1

The linked bug may be relevant. If so, the answer to your question is "Yes".

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Schmirrwurst (schmirrwurst) said : 		#2

Hi, thank you.

I don't think so, if I've understand the feature request in Bug #1472698, the aim is to provide a API for Dropbox,Google Drive and other, to have a standard way to access and display informations in Files/Nautilus...

I see Openstack Swift, and S3 / S3 compatible, more as a new protocol in "Connect to server"
For example :
s3://mys3 ...
swift://

Diffculty would be probably being able to setup the endpoint in S3 Url for S3-Compatible Storage (not by amazon)

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Schmirrwurst (schmirrwurst) said : 		#3

https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/nautilus-connect.html

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Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten) said : 		#4

OK, I think I understand now. FIles relies on gvfs-backends package to provide "transparent" access to schemes such as ftp://, smb://, afp:// etc. The Connect to Server dialog gives the range currently supported in the "Type" drop-down box. The ssh protocol is already supported for secure transport (sftp:// protocol).

There are no plans currently for ElementaryOS to build further backends - resources are too limited - but if one were available we would use it.

Quite a lot of work has been done making the existing network protocol support more stable but it has not yet been reviewed or merged. Hopefully it will appear in Loki.

I suggest you raise a wishlist bug on this issue,preferably on the gvfs project.

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Schmirrwurst (schmirrwurst) said : 		#5

THank you for your answer.

Bug opend here for the records :
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760486

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2016-01-09 12:12 GMT+01:00 Jeremy Wootten
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> Jeremy Wootten proposed the following answer:
> OK, I think I understand now. FIles relies on gvfs-backends package to
> provide "transparent" access to schemes such as ftp://, smb://, afp://
> etc. The Connect to Server dialog gives the range currently supported
> in the "Type" drop-down box. The ssh protocol is already supported for
> secure transport (sftp:// protocol).
>
> There are no plans currently for ElementaryOS to build further backends
> - resources are too limited - but if one were available we would use it.
>
> Quite a lot of work has been done making the existing network protocol
> support more stable but it has not yet been reviewed or merged.
> Hopefully it will appear in Loki.
>
> I suggest you raise a wishlist bug on this issue,preferably on the gvfs
> project.
>
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