creating virtual devices for fuse mounts?

[Vagrant Cascadian]

greetings.

i'm trying to figure out how feasible it is to create some sort of virtual
device for mountpoints mounted with fuse.

i'm hoping this is the appropriate place for such a message... if not, please
suggest a better place for such a question.

as best i can figure out, KDE and LXDE use hal or udev/udisks properties for
their file manager to recognize mounted devices or devices available for
mounting.

with fuse mounts, there is no associated device or udev event, as far as i can
tell.

in particular, i'm working with ltspfs, which is a remote fuse filesystem used
for LTSP thin-clients. ltspfs on the client-side has udev rules to detect
device insertion/removal, and then connects to the server that the user is
logged into, and sets up a fuse mount server-side that the user then accesses.

with GNOME, it recognizes mounts done in /media/, and so ltspfs mounts remote
devices in /media and it gets recognized by GNOME's filemanager.  but KDE and
LXDE don't handle mounts in /media in the same way, so ltspfs mounts that
happen in /media and are not recognized by the filemanager (other than simply
browsing to the mountpoint, like any other filesystem).

a bug reported against ltspfs in debian:

  http://bugs.debian.org/575031

is there some way to emulate a device, creating a virtual device in the
hal/udev/udisks/devicekit namespace? a short-term approach that could be used,
or a longer-term vision for how to handle these sorts of situations?

thanks for your thoughts!

please CC 575031 at bugs.debian.org with a response, if you would be so kind.

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