This is a desired behaviour, since the gnome-vfs ftp support has not be judged reliable enough to enable saving by default. (indeed, it's quite buggy). Anyway I agree the save-on-close thingy looks a bit weird.
You can activate saving through ftp by adding ftp to the list of supported protocols in the gconf key at /apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/save/writable_vfs_schemes You can also have a look at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331072 which is somewhat related. -- No possibility to save file over gnome-vfs ftp connection https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/38066 -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
