There is no obvious solution for fixing the permissions problem which is robust, nonintrusive, and architecturally sound. It at least requires right-click and "detect media...", before mounting, plus it requires unblacklisting floppies in /lib/udev/rules.d/95-devkit-disks.rules. This should be a slightly more comfortable workaround than having to resort to the command line, though.
There is no obvious solution for fixing the permissions problem which is robust, nonintrusive, and architecturally sound. It at least requires right-click and "detect media...", before mounting, plus it requires unblacklisting floppies in /lib/udev/ rules.d/ 95-devkit- disks.rules. This should be a slightly more comfortable workaround than having to resort to the command line, though.
Therefore retitling back to original problem.