odd things

[Rashkae]

Marcin ‘Qrczak’ Kowalczyk wrote:
> You can see how it works:
> 
> • Open a remote location (Places / Connect to Server), e.g. public FTP
> at ftp.unicode.org
> • Navigate to some file, e.g. README.TXT
> • Open it with Gnome Text Editor or OpenOffice.org Writer — they do
> support gvfs and display the location as an URI.
> • Open it with Emacs or AbiWord — they do not support gvfs and see the
> file sitting under ~/.gvfs
> 
> I'm not sure about functional differences between these access
> methods. It seems that e.g. after the filesystem is unmounted,
> gvfs-aware programs are still able to save changes to such files,
> while other programs are lost: the directory containing the file has
> simply disappeared from their point of view, so they can do nothing
> else than complain to the user. There might be some more important
> differences.
> 

The Important difference is users should no longer be sending mail to
the list saying something like "I can open this file with gedit, but I I
can't find it with nano." Nor do we have to teach people how to use
mount to be able to use command line tools (or older gui apps) with
their network drives... (Gui network access that works universally is
something *long* overdue)