Comment 50 for bug 212789

i could go into a rant about capitalization and whitespace in system
paths, but i'll save that for another day. there is already a
directory for system level mountpoints. it's called /mnt. the ubuntu
equivalent to mac's /Volumes appears to be /media. i'm not exactly
clear on what the difference is, other than gnome/nautilus sees one
and not the other.

we've already established that mounting user-space volumes outside of
the home folder is a no-no. exposing the mount points as a visible
directory in the home directory does not exactly follow with the gnome
standard. it doesn't exactly fit with what I, personally, would want,
but if you were following gnome's lead, it would have the volumes
visible on the desktop (similar to other mounted volumes), which could
be turned on/off via gconf editor
(/apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible). this whole business about
whether or not to create a symlink to ~/.gvfs seems pretty pointless.
If you want the link, create it.. if not, don't.

also, i don't mean to be a party pooper, but does any of this
discussion have anything to do with the big hairy wart of a bug that
this thread is supposed to be about. if you ask me, this bug is more
detrimental to the user experience than whether or not we can see the
volumes in our home folder.