For some time now I'm working on a construction which offers the user a layer around the normal system, giving the user access to all kinds of resources found, local like partitions on harddrives and usbsticks and cdroms, network like SMB shares, and (todo) services like Google Docs and Amazon S3. Simply, after the user logs in the root of the system is transormed into:
Computer
Home
Internet Services
Mounts
Network
Shared
System
For screenshots and more see:
http://linux.bononline.nl/wiki/index.php/Changes_and_issues And general information: http://linux.bononline.nl/wiki/index.php/Mount.md5key