Comment 41 for bug 212789

Of course I can make a symlink, but as Ross Peoples correctly writes, Ubuntu is for human beings and not (just) for Linux nerds. That's why it should just work. I understand that /Volumes is not the right location, but then it should be ~/Volumes and not a hidden folder.

Concerning the question why we should need to access the folders in .gvfs directly:
1. Try to open an OpenOffice document on a samba share.
2. Try to compile a LaTeX document on a samba share with gedit and the LaTeX plugin.
3. Try to do anything with the shell with stuff on a samba share.

Replace samba share above with SSH, FTP, ...