odd things

[Marcin ‘Qrczak’ Kowalczyk]

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.

-- 
Marcin Kowalczyk
qrczak at knm.org.pl
http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/