Comment 82 for bug 411358

(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.