Mounting network filesystems, filesystem images, etc. using the UI

[Michael Rothwell <rothwell holly-springs nc us>]

Apple's OSX makes the kernel filesystem support available via the file
manager, so that users can mount SMB shares (for instance), and not have
to use only applications that support a special library (Gnome-VFS, for
example). It would be nice if this type of functionality was available
with Nautilus as well, so that I could mount smb://fileserver/share at
~/mounts, or something, and it would get an icon on the desktop. The
"disks" menu makes items defined in /etc/fstab available, but t/vhat's
all. The same features would be nice for mounting image files (ISOs,
floppy disk images, etc.).

Thoughts?