Comment 16 for bug 453898

I have fixed this problem (and the related LP bug 501699) and produced update packages for karmic and lucid, available in my PPA here:

    https://launchpad.net/~kamalmostafa/+archive/glib2.0-fixes

The patch has been contributed upstream but has not yet been reviewed or integrated by the glib development team (see the gnome bug report https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599079 ).