(In reply to fabrice.neyret from comment #74) > Hi guys. I came here BTWof the author of a linkifyer extension for > thunderbird. > I must say I'm a bit afraid by what I read in this discussions. > - '+' IS a legal character for files in unix. > - svn+ssh: IS an extremely important url for developpers (+ forges often go > with mailing-lists). > - I might be naive, but this bug sounds to me as the classical forgetting to > protect a string by "" despites it might possibly contains spaces or special > characters (important for FS pathes as well as plenty other kinds of > strings). > - It seems unreasonable to me to decide that the problem will end with the > new UbuntuLTS: > - gnome3 has plainty of problems and bugs, and it is likely that "real > computer" (ie, not tablets) user will replace it by anything else, eg, > gnome2. > - existing code might still be used under 12.04LTS (some people in CS, > research and engineering do have to ensure backward compatibility, sometimes > even for binaries). > - I guess many people will stuck with 10.04LTS even after march. > > As I understand it from this discussion, there are 2 identified bugs: one in > gnome2 (the probably forgoten "") which must be fixed by this community, and > one in thunderbird (about the popup - or before thunderbird, about the error > status) for which the thunderbird community just have to release a built > using --disable-gio . > Any of the 2 solutions is sufficient to fix the problem, even if it would be > better to fix both. > > -> could you please do this thunderbird release, and forward the gnome bug > to the gnome community ? thanks.
In comment 67, 68 and 70 we've come into conclusion this bug is in old gconf. The patch I've made is only a workaround, not actual fix. You should probably push on gconf package maintainers and let them fix this problem. It's already fixed in upstream. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411358 Title: Thunderbird2 gconf gmt problem 'Bad key or directory name' because of plus symbol (+) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/411358/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
