Gnome3 and auto-mounting MTP devices

[drago01]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,

Hi,

> Of late, on my up to date F18 system, my galaxy S3 (jellybean 4.1.2)
> doesn't automount as an MTP device on Gnome3. It doesn't show up in
> nautilus even after I use simple-mtpfs (the orphaned mtpfs package
> doesn't work). IIRC, it used to, but I'm not really sure when it
> stopped. Would anyone know how I could debug this and file a bug report?
> Does Gnome3 use mtpfs as a backend?

No.

A MTP backend for gvfs has been in the works for a while though and
got merged in gvfs 1.15.2.
That means that at least for Fedora 19 it will "just work" out of the box.