Bug#543200: deskbar-applet gconf errors keep popping up

[Karl E. Jorgensen]

Package: deskbar-applet
Version: 2.26.2-1
Severity: normal

Deskbar keeps putting up a dialog box saying:

    An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for
    deskbar-applet. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly

The dialog box has a "Details" button, which (when pressed) reveals a more
detailed error message:

    Bad key or directory name: "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/": Key/directory may not end with a slash '/'

Although annoying, it does not seem to adversely affect deskbar-applet - but
then again I haven't been changing the configuration. But it is very visible -
without this, the bug priority would have been "minor".

I cannot yet see any pattern to _when_ this occurs. It definitely happens upon
login  - killing deskbar-applet and letting the panel reload it has the same
effect. But it also happens at (seemingly) random times - even (mostly?) when
I'm not using it (!)

I think i found the same bug reported on launchpad: 
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/deskbar-applet/+bug/349106

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages deskbar-applet depends on:
ii  gconf2                 2.26.2-3          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.26.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.24.1-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                  2.9-23            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.8.8-2           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.16-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libebook1.2-9          2.26.3-1+b1       Client library for evolution addre
ii  libedataserver1.2-11   2.26.3-1+b1       Utility library for evolution data
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-4           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.9-5           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.26.2-3          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.4-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-11  2.26.1-1          Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.16.5-1          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.17-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.24.5-1          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.27.4-1          an HTTP library implementation in 
ii  libstartup-notificatio 0.10-1            library for program launch feedbac
ii  libxml2                2.7.3.dfsg-2.1    GNOME XML library
ii  python                 2.5.4-2           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-dbus            0.83.0-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  python-glade2          2.14.1-3          GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gnome2          2.26.1-1          Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gnomeapplet     2.26.0-1          Python bindings for the GNOME pane
ii  python-gnomedesktop    2.26.0-1          Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gnomekeyring    2.26.0-1          Python bindings for the GNOME keyr
ii  python-gobject         2.16.1-1          Python bindings for the GObject li
ii  python-gtk2            2.14.1-3          Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-support         1.0.3             automated rebuilding support for P
ii  python-wnck            2.26.0-1          Python bindings for the WNCK libra
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages deskbar-applet recommends:
ii  gnome-utils                   2.26.0-1   GNOME desktop utilities
ii  python-beagle                 0.3.9-1    Python bindings for beagle

deskbar-applet suggests no packages.

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