Fuse Workspace Union

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Hello there,

I just received a phone call from Stef Bon, a fellow Dutchman who's been 
working on a Fuse technology based module to make it easier, and more 
transparent, to a user, to mount, navigate and use pluggable storage devices 
and network resources like Samba shares.

While Stef is in a better position to describe the project, I'm going to take 
a stab at providing a summary. Since Stef wrote a bunch of good documentation 
on his project, please allow me to refer you to those pages:

    http://linux.bononline.nl/linux/mount.md5key.new/

In short, this type of technology could move the user's desktop experience 
forward a great deal as far as navigation experience goes.

For instance, and this is just one of many example scenarios listed in the 
documentation, creating a "Shared Folder" for documents and files that all 
users on a system can use is a little more difficult on Linux still then it is 
on, say, a Windows XP Home edition workstation.

Very much the same goes for navigation to a freshly (automatically) mounted 
USB thumb drive, that simply is not mounted within the user's home directory, 
but instead causes the user to have to navigate through system folders (e.g. 
/media/XXX/), even though a "1.8 GiB Filesystem" might show up in "Places" -if 
you use that navigation pane.

Stef would love to increase awareness about his project, and would appreciate 
some constructive feedback. I'm glad to be able to make the introductions. I 
think Stef's project has a very high potential, and so, if you're interested, 
Stef would also appreciate some help in terms of further development.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen