[Bug 168914] New: no mount options anywhere for external drives, e.g. vfat shortname

[Alex Lennon]

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           Summary: no mount options anywhere for external drives, e.g. vfat
                    shortname
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: alex.lennon gmail com


Version:            (using KDE 4.1.0)
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package
Compiler:          gcc 4.3.1 
OS:                Linux

After upgrading to KDE4 I have not been able to find a way of passing mount options for external devices, in particular a usb fat32 drive. The default automount behaviour in dolphin doesn't use mixed case for shortnames. After a lot of web searching and browsing the KDE 'systemsettings' GUI and dolphin etc., I haven't come across a way of setting this from within KDE. 

This ability seems to have been dropped since KDE 3.5.9---device icons on the desktop had an option within the properties link to control some mount options, such as the filename case.

A workaround for now is to use 'pmount' from the terminal which has my preferred default behaviour. 

Thanks,
Alex