Sorry for reopening this, but just because it may or not be a bug in GConf, it is still most certainly a bug in Ubuntu. Flag it SSH, DBus, GConf, or whatever, but X tunnelling in Ubuntu is flat out broken. If the GConf team decides its not their bug, can it get forwarded to the appropriate team? This is most certainly not invalid (running Karmic on both machines).
On a more constructive note, would adding the code to ensure that the directories are correctly owned to 'tools/dbus-launch-x11.c' be correct? (I am willing to look into this)
Sorry for reopening this, but just because it may or not be a bug in GConf, it is still most certainly a bug in Ubuntu. Flag it SSH, DBus, GConf, or whatever, but X tunnelling in Ubuntu is flat out broken. If the GConf team decides its not their bug, can it get forwarded to the appropriate team? This is most certainly not invalid (running Karmic on both machines).
On a more constructive note, would adding the code to ensure that the directories are correctly owned to 'tools/ dbus-launch- x11.c' be correct? (I am willing to look into this)