FW: hal with ntfs-3g when user UI language setting different from the user locale setting

[Jethro Tull]

From: heavytull at hotmail.com
To: ambro at b4ever.net
Subject: RE: hal with ntfs-3g when user UI language setting different from the	user locale setting
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:13:05 +0000










> From: ambro at b4ever.net
> To: hal at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: hal with ntfs-3g when user UI language setting different from the	user locale setting
> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:07:44 +0100
> 
> On Saturday 13 December 2008 11:10:11 Jethro Tull wrote:
> > My computer is running slackware 12.1 in en_US language because i prefer
> > OL. But I set the locale not to en_US because i need to get the correct
> > characters when treating of filenames in local language. I think that's why
> > when i mount an ntfs partition with hal and ntfs-3g driver in kde i cannot
> > see any file which name contains non en_US characters. Does anyone have a
> > work around for this?
> 
> First, make sure your distribution integrates ntfs-3g with HAL by installing a 
> fdi file which changes the fstype from "ntfs" to "ntfs-3g".
I'm using slackware12.2, it does integrate an fdi file since even previous release.

> If a 
> /sbin/mount.ntfs script is used instead, it will probably not work. This is 
> because the mount.ntfs script is an ugly hack that breaks mount options and 
> KDE can't know whether to provide the "locale" option or not.
> An example of a fdi file: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#NTFS
> 
> Second, HAL has a bug that will cause the mount to fail with the message 
> "TODO: Have to rethink extra options". This patch is needed:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/hal/diff/tools/hal-storage-
> mount.c?id=25f9536d8cd4ff534eb73dc603a38b7d64ebf81e
> 
I would have to rebuild some parts of KDE, too much pain.

> Finally, you have to use kde >=4.1.2. If you use 3.5, this patch is required:
> http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=864963
> 
> I suggest you forward this info to your distribution.
> Note that HAL will provide a nicer way to handle ntfs-3g in the future, but 
> not all DE's support it yet.
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