[Bug 411358]

[Mark S.]

I don't understand why anybody would care about svn+ssh URLs in the
email.  The whole point of recognizing a URL so the user can click on it
to go to that URL, even if the sender DID NOT designate it as a
clickable link in the original message.

It already does not work for svn+ssh URLs, but I found zero bug reports
about the svn+ssh URL not being clickable.  There are at least 5 other
duplicate reports of this bug.

A fix that prevents the popup error and yet does not recognize svn+ssh
is a net improvement in the user experience.  It does not create any new
bugs.

The fix is quite obviously something like:  if (strchr(x,'+')) return
false;

That is, when using GConf for the lookup, first assume a string with '+'
in it was not found.  Obviously, there would be a comment above it that
contains a paragraph explaining the problem and why this is the
solution.  Someone who already has a thunderbird development environment
and understands how this aspect works could implement this fix
trivially.

Unfortunately, much modern open source software is so complicated that
even a highly proficient programmer can't just pick it up and make a
trivial fix like this.  Unless I can find time for several days of work
to fixing this bug (just to get a thunderbird development environment
working), I am just a user who has the option of living with buggy
software or using something else.

So: Is anybody involved in this discussion able to make this fix and
test it?

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Title:
  Thunderbird2 gconf gmt problem 'Bad key or directory name' because of
  plus symbol (+)

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