[Bug 161673] Cyrillic file names on usb storage devices are displayed as '?????????'

[Danila Sentiabov]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161673


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--- Comment #21 from Danila Sentiabov <dsent mail ru>  2008-09-21 20:41:07 ---
I'm not a BSD guy, but I also think that there should be a way to specify mount
options manually. If you don't want to make GUI cluttered with options, it
definitely won't hurt to provide a way to specify options in some config file.

Imagine that you have some FAT removable drives in cp 866 and some in cp 850.
How will KDE you know which codepage to use in each case?

Another example. I, personally, never use anything except for en_US.UTF-8 in my
locale settings. But all my FAT removable media is in 866 and I expect to see
it working properly.

But it's more than that. What if I'm not happy with other mount options in
their default state? For example, I always use "shortname=mixed" option for FAT
media. With KDE 3.5 I can simply set this option through GUI or edit
mediamanagerrc manually (which is much more painful considering all that
multi-character media UIDs and absence of a method to modify mount defaults).
With KDE 4.x I'll have to recompile my kernel to make up for "work" that my
machine "doing for me" without my request? :-)

I don't mean to produce a flame or make some ignorant complaints here, really.
You are doing a great job, and I'm sure that everyone is appreciating it. But
it's sad that KDE now lacks configurability (at least in some areas) which
always was it's main advantage over it's competitors. The main reason I sticked
with KDE instead of Gnome some years ago was Gnome's "simple approach" (I'd say
"dumb" or even "idiotic"). Now it seems that "simplification" is plaguing
everything, doing more harm than good :-)

Summarizing my thoughts. I think that "doing all the chores" without user
intervention is good. But there should be a way to stop the machine manually if
your shirt got caught in gear wheels :-)

Sorry for long comment.


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