Ok kids, listen up. Since I'm crazy and all, I decided I can't wait till april to get this bug fixed for us Ubuntu users. I ripped out the SS file manager and replaced it with tesupload an ajax progress bar enabled file upload utility.
I still have NOT figured out the ss api function to update the Files table and the tinymce image manager!! Please someone tell me how.
edit... cms/templates/Includes/AssetTableField.ss and make it look like this
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</tbody>
</table>
<iframe src="tesupload/html/upload-async.php" border="0" name="file_manager" id="file_manager" width="400" height="250"></iframe>
</div>
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then extract the following file to your base site directory (outside of the silverstripe-2.0 dir but still in your web root.
http://www.shift8.net/tesupload_ssmod_granny.tar.gz
....next edit tesupload/html/upload-async.php and change <base href="http://www.shift8.net/"> to reflect your domain.
Then edit tesupload/html/receive_helper.php to change the upload/save paths.
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Again any help getting the silver stripe Files table and the tinymce image manager to populate with the uploaded data would be very much appreciated!!!
P.S. You will also need Prototype to use my modification of tesupload.