GVfs not showing in Nautilus Sidebar

[tobehn]

I have another issue wit Gnome Online Accounts.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeOnlineAccounts

By setting up a Nextcloud connection i can choose syncing Calendar, Contacts and Files. Calendar and Contacts are working fine after this #44 fix 👌.

However, the WebDAV Connection is not showing up in Nautilus Sidebar as it normally does by switching on File sync in the configuration of the Online Account.

I dug into it a little bit, i am not familiar with how this is done in GNOME though. From how i understand a mount should have been generated automatically which shows up in the sidebar then.

There is something to read about GVFS which is a virtual filesystem implementation for GIO --> GVolumes.

About the Integration with GOA:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeOnlineAccounts/Debugging

About the GNOME Virtual File System:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs/

• gvfs-mount -l command is not available.
• gvfs-goa-volume-monitor binary is not shipped with the installation (i assume)

• The GVfs integration is hinged on the org.gnome.OnlineAccounts.Files interface. GVfs' GOA volume monitor exposes all account objects implementing this interface as GVolumes that appear in the above output. You can mount and unmount volumes from the GTK+ UI or with gvfs-mount:

Perhaps it just helps to have the whole gvfs aboard (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs)

[kbdharun]

So, adding gvfs-goa-volume-monitor is enough right? I am adding another package currently will add it too.

[tobehn]

i am not sure. i havent testet it.
i was wondering if this could be done via vanilla_base_meta again.

tarballs of gvfs can be found here:
https://download.gnome.org/sources/gvfs/

gvfs-goa-volume-monitor is part of it (afaik)
gvfs-mount command could then be available.

[kbdharun]

i am not sure. i havent testet it. i was wondering if this could be done via vanilla_base_meta again.

tarballs of gvfs can be found here: https://download.gnome.org/sources/gvfs/

gvfs-goa-volume-monitor is part of it (afaik) gvfs-mount command could then be available.

I will check Ubuntu packages (https://packages.ubuntu.com/) and will get back to you.

[kbdharun]

https://packages.ubuntu.com/kinetic/gnome-online-accounts, It seems to be listed here already so it must be installed. Can you try to installing gvfs (https://packages.ubuntu.com/kinetic/gvfs) alone though abroot (sudo abroot exec apt install gvfs) and let me know. If it works.

[tobehn]

I could install it via abroot. I do not have the gvfs-mount command afterwards and also when starting Nautilus i do not see any mounts.

I assume a deamon, or any kind of service needs to be startet. Stlll figuring out.

EDIT:
Service was running:

systemctl --user status gvfs-daemon
● gvfs-daemon.service - Virtual filesystem service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/gvfs-daemon.service; static)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2022-12-31 13:51:38 CET; 13min ago
   Main PID: 1938 (gvfsd)
      Tasks: 12 (limit: 18743)
     Memory: 3.8M
        CPU: 93ms
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/gvfs-daemon.service
             ├─1938 /usr/libexec/gvfsd
             ├─1955 /usr/libexec/gvfsd-fuse /run/user/1000/gvfs -f
             └─2310 /usr/libexec/gvfsd-trash --spawner :1.8 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/0

Dez 31 13:51:38 vanilla systemd[1891]: Starting Virtual filesystem service...

[tobehn]

you also need to add the package gvfs-backends

i have it working now.

[kbdharun]

you also need to add the package gvfs-backends

i have it working now.

Thanks so I need to add these 2 packages for nextcloud to work right? or does it apply to all gnome-online-account profiles?

I will add it, I need more info for changelog description.

[tobehn]

I assume it’s for all GNOME Online Account Integrations.
gvfs-backends has several integrations aboard.

See https://packages.ubuntu.com/kinetic/amd64/gvfs-backends/filelist

It is at least needed to get the gvfs-goa-volume-monitor binary and service into the system.

[kbdharun]

I assume it’s for all GNOME Online Account Integrations. gvfs-backends has several integrations aboard.

See https://packages.ubuntu.com/kinetic/amd64/gvfs-backends/filelist

It is at least needed to get the gvfs-goa-volume-monitor binary and service into the system.

gvfs-backend has gvfs as dependency so adding it alone is enough I think https://packages.ubuntu.com/kinetic/gvfs-backends. Thanks for helping me out, I will create a PR now.

[tobehn]

Great! You are welcome.
🚀