Long dbus command displayed on dialog when trying to mount hard drive via dolphin

Thank you for taking your time to make Ubuntu better, we really appreciate this.
I think this behavior is by design, to show what the system is actually attempting to do. I will mark his bug as confirmed, an we will wait for developer to provide more input on this.

The issue here is how kdelibs calls the command, not in kdesudo.

@Tomasz Z. Napierala

Maybe this could be rather a "WIshlist" bug? :)
Can the displaying of the whole kdelibs command at the kdesudo dialog be masked or is it necessary to display it there?

Thanks
Sayak Banerjee

This patch should hide the long dbus-send command with a user-friendly message

I agree that this is worth fixing.

However, the new string needs to be i18n'ed with gettext. I. e. it needs to be wrapped into _(), and po/POTFILES.in needs to have that file. Also, I'm not sure how that works together with KDE's slightly uncommon l10n package structure. So it would really be best to discuss/fix this upstream first, and then backport to intrepid, so that we don't introduce a different string than upstream.

Maybe there is an already existing error message which would fit there, which is already i18n'ed and avoids introducing a new user visible string?

Updated patch

wrong upload

The strings in the patch should now be translatable and extracted during build

Thanks! Why is the change to CMakeLists.txt necessary?

This is necessary because the solid library needs to link against the kdecore library to use translation features.
I also added solid/solid/backends/hal/Messages.sh, this is used during building to extract translatable strings and add them to a .po
I have built the package in my PPA[1] and everything seems to work correctly here.
[1] http://launchpad.net/~tsimpson/+archive

I sponsored the patch, uploaded. Waiting for SRU processing now.

Accepted into intrepid-proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

intrepid-proposed package copied to jaunty.

This bug was fixed in the package kde4libs - 4:4.1.3-0ubuntu1~intrepid2

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kde4libs (4:4.1.3-0ubuntu1~intrepid2) intrepid-backports; urgency=low

  [ Terence Simpson ]
  * Update kubuntu_06_user_disk_mounting.diff
    - Don't show the user long dbus commands (LP: #290589)

  [ Scott Kitterman ]
  * Fix http cache cleaner (Upstream patch that missed 4.1.3)
    - http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172182
    - Add kubuntu_12_http_cache_cleaner.diff

 -- Scott Kitterman <email address hidden> Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:51:32 -0500

TEST CASE: open dolphin on a computer where a hard disk has a partition that is not mounted and is not in /etc/fstab. Click on the disk drive, it should prompt for a password then mount and show the drive. The prompt should not have a long dbus command.

Works for me.

Works for me in intrepid (with backports enabled).

Works perfectly for me too!

Copied to intrepid-updates.

Enabling "Set date and time automatically" in System Settings->Date and Time shows this dialog.

That would be another bug. Probably more to do with how KDESudo and kdesu deal with the -d option.