Comment 51 for bug 212789

Hm, I'm not so sure that mounting user-space volumes outside of the home folder is a no-no - if there's a folder for that purpose, I think it should be used to mount also the .gvfs stuff (just as it is used now to mount USB drives and so on). There are some folders outside the home that are writeable for non-root users (such as /tmp) right now. So why not mount everything in /media?

Second, it seems to me that all non-Gnome applications would benefit from this. Since not even all Gnome apps can handle it now (gedit), this would be really helpful. My second example went unheard - OpenOffice.org. It's strange that emacs supports gvfs, probably a Gnome GUI version? Can you really open a text file from nautilus on an smb:// address and emacs doesn't complain?

Seems stupid to me to "enhance" each program with the gvfs support when it'd be so easy to just mount the SSH/samba/FTP/... stuff to a regular location in the file system hierarchy - IMHO, gvfs would be a real killer feature then.

BTW, this discussion does not belong to this bug report any more, is there a more suitable location for it?