[Bug 411358]

[Fabrice-neyret-6]

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.

FabriceN (Unix user since 1986).

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

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