I think this is all a bit dependent on the version of GNOME is in use. I am running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS which still uses GNOME 2.30.2
Looking at the git master for GVFS the latest code no longer appears to have any reliance on gconf. I guess that the GIO implementation in GNOME 2.30.2 is somewhat transitional. I've just installed Ubuntu 12.04 + GNOME3 (gnome-shell) in a virtual machine and can confirm that thunderbird (versions 11.0 and 14.0) does not encounter any GConf errors running under GNOME3. This all poses a slightly tricky question... Who's fault is this and who should fix it? Honestly, I don't know enough about the history of Thunderbird and GNOME to be sure, but the GNOME team possibly shot themselves in the foot a bit by choosing GConf as the central URI -> Application mapping database when it cannot fully support RFC2396 URIs. But then this seems to have always been the case and so with this known limitation, there seems to be little point in querying potential URIs which will fail to resolve. Using GConf natively does not really cause a problem as the messages only go to stdout. The annoying pop-ups only occur when GNOME 2.x versions of GIO are in use, but I don't know if there's any easy way for thunderbird to test which version of GIO being used and change its behaviour based on that. In my opinion, the essence of the plain text URI parsing in Thunderbird is primarily for making clickable links for http:, https:, ftp:, mailto:, etc... For these purposes it seems unnecessary to check the full extent of the scheme defined in RFC2395. As there are currently no known URI Schemes which use any non alphanumeric characters (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme ) I thinks there is an argument to suggest that the regular expression used to determine what might be a URI, could be changed so that '+' isn't considered valid. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411358 Title: Thunderbird2 gconf gmt problem 'Bad key or directory name' because of plus symbol (+) Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Confirmed Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Here is an error message for Thunderbird 2 in Jaunty gnubyexample@k8amd:~$ thunderbird GConf Error: Bad key or directory name: "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/GMT+02/command": `+' is an invalid character in key/directory names gnubyexample@k8amd:~$ date;uname -a;cat /etc/*version*;dpkg -l | grep underbird Sun Aug 9 14:48:37 BST 2009 Linux k8amd 2.6.28-14-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Sat Jul 25 00:28:35 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux 5.0 ii enigmail 2:0.95.7-1ubuntu2 Enigmail - GPG support for Thunderbird ii thunderbird 2.0.0.22+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support ii thunderbird-locale-en-gb 1:2.0.0.14+1-0ubuntu2 Thunderbird English language/region package From reading this extract ( http://osdir.com/ml/os.solaris.opensolaris.desktop/2008-03/msg00020.html ): Subject: Re: GConf/Thunderbird error on Solaris Nevada "Hi Mats,I believe you download the contribute builds of Thunderbird 2, and run it on snv_70. For some reason, the fix is upstreamed to Thunderbird 3 alpha, but not community version of Thunderbird 2. Fixed in snv_68 means the fix was integrated to Thunderbird bundled with snv_68." ...it seems that the fix for this in thunderbird2 might require some manual intervention as although the problem is well know, the fix was only incorporated in the newer thunderbird3. Have just checked the Karmic version at: http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/thunderbird which currently shows that version 2 of thunderbird is planned for Karmic release. As thunderbird3 is at Beta 3 right now I can perhaps see why debian and ubuntu are sticking with Thunderbird2 just now. http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/about/press/archive/2009-07-21-01 However it does seem a shame to ship a new release with this known gconf issue unpatched. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/411358/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
