automount ntfs volumes (was ntfs volume and locale= option)

[Robby Workman]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:54:23 +0200
Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka at web.de> wrote:

> On Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2008, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > On Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2008, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > 2008/10/11 Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka at ntfs-3g.org>:
> > > >  2. Distribution maintainers include the proper HAL config
> > > > which works with their shipped HAL version. This is how it is
> > > > done now.
> > >
> > > Actuallly, this is not done atm. I don't know a distribution,
> > > where the ntfs-3g package ships a proper fdi file.
> > >
> > > That's one of the reasons why I started this discussion.
> > > If we can agree on a best-practice how to address this issue, and
> > > you as upstream lead the way, then I'm certain most distros would
> > > follow.
> >
> > Any comments on my proposal to solve this issue for future releases
> > of HAL? I would like to have a solution for the next release to
> > push the desktop distros to adapt their mount handling to the
> > changed spec.
> 
> Any comments on my proposal (see 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2008-October/012358.html)?
> If there are no comments, I go to commit the changes to the spec.


Forward looking, that sounds reasonable (I think).
Am I correct in thinking that this doesn't really help us at all in the
short term though?  That is, kde-3.5.x, xfce-4.4.x (and soon to be
released 4.6.0) will still have the same problems?

-RW