Please describe the problem:
If I add a symlink from the command line, nautilus sees it fine, but the file chooser within gedit and other gnome programs fails to follow the symlink and attempts to open the file instead of follow it to a target directory.

Steps to reproduce:
1. create symlink from command line on remote ssh server
2. open gedit, use remote connection, try to follow symlink
3. 


Actual results:
gedit says "could not open <path/to/symlink>"

Expected results:
file dialog follows symlink

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information:
nope