The default behaviour of the FAT formatter is to create a 16 nit FAT. 
This may have been best practice behaviour in the past bt today most
people use a 32 bit FAT.  Perhaps at the very least an option should be
added to allow the creation of 32bit FAT filesystems if not making this
the default behaviour.  DOS may have imposed an 8.3 file naming
convention but this is long outdated.  Having your filenames renamed to
a shorter version will only confuse new users who don't even know
anything about the history of the FAT filesystem.  They will see it as a
fault in linux/gnome that it can not write to their disks properly when
windows can unless they use windows to format their disk first.