Comment 39 for bug 212789

could you describe exactly in what situations those mounts are not accessible, using in preference an application installed in the default installation?

openin something from nautilus should transparently call software which don't support vfs uris using the .gvfs directories, the fileselectors have those mounts in the sidebar and those should work transparently the same way, how do you access those shares if that's not by using nautilus or a fileselector widget?

don't get those comments wrongly, that's not a refuse to fix the issue but it's not clear than having an extra directory is the right way to deal with the issue, having those listed as normal mounts and available in nautilus, in the GNOME places, etc should be transparent for the users and they should not have to figure where are the mounts, if you face issues there might still some work to do though