Re: Head Up: Prepare for dropping fuse group in the nearest future

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 08:51 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Alexander Larsson <alexl <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > If fuse is supported, then the gvfs fuse filesystem will be
> > automatically mounted on "~/.gvfs". This filesystem will let you access
> > files on all visible gvfs mounts.
> 
> Sounds a lot like kio_fuse: 
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/libs/kiofuse/

It is quite similar.

The major difference is that gvfs is mount-based itself, so the gvfs
fuse backend will automatically let you access all the mounts you've
accessed in the desktop, whereas kio-fuse needs to be manually mounted
for each specific uri you want to access.