Comment 1 for bug 1153781

vfat has the nice "showexec" option which automatically sets the executable bit for *.exe, *.com, and *.bat. But ntfs-3g does not have an equivalent option. One can add the "exec" mount option, but that will make _all_ files executable, and thus make it very confusing to open documents from NTFS devices (it would try to execute e. g. a Word document, which will obviously fail). As handling documents, media files etc. is far more common than trying to run DOS batch or Windows .exe files under Linux, udisks does not, and will not use "exec" by default.

You can locally work around this by adding the affected device to /etc/fstab (mount by label or UUID), and adding the exec option (and "noauto,user").

A better fix would be to teach ntfs-3g about a "showexec"-like mount option, which we could then use in udisks.