F12: .gvfs is no longer dynamic?

[Daniel B. Thurman]

I have once was able to have a fully active remote
network connection to a .gvfs mounted filesystem from
which I could do a 'tail -f <gvfs-mounted-fs>/file.log, but
now, it does not work.  It works on F9, 10, and I am not
sure about F11, but definitely sure that F12 does not.

Has this been reported before, is this considered
a bug, or is intended by (new) design?