.desktop files aren't being parsed correctly. Thunderbird is showing incorrectly as "Contacts". It appears only the last section is being processed, not the Desktop Entry section.

The pygtk bug is ​here I had originally created a twisted bug ​here - but the problem is not in twisted.

And here is the Fedora bug: ​660137

Gentoo bug: ​353599

Ubuntu bug: ​664920

Debian already has a patch for squeeze (against 2.17.0-4): ​pygtk-wakeupfd-fix.patch

FreeBSD: ​bug 154755

So, I believe we should just leave it to the distributors to ship patched versions of the libraries we rely on rather than trying to workaround the issue (not even sure it is possible to do so)

However: if you want to use the fixed PyGTK RPMs/DEBs we have made using the above patch, please download them manually from: ​http://winswitch.org/dists/

(as this is a system package - we will not push it to you automatically: this is your distribution's job)

There are a number of obstacles which prevent us from following the instructions on ​dev/win32.

For some dependencies, it is just a question of doing more manual work than running the 64-bit version of the installer, as is the case for ​setuptools and ​python wmi.

Then there's the problem that by default, you can't compile 64-bit programs with distutils and VC 2008... (see ​http://bugs.python.org/issue7511 and use this patch: ​http://bugs.python.org/file17959/vcvars4.diff - why isn't this merged and released??)

Unfortunately, other dependencies are even harder to deal with:

• ​pygtk (or even just plain GTK for that matter) do not provide 64-bit installers at present, and building from source is too tedious: see ​this discussion for details.
• ​gstreamer does not provide a 64-bit version, all the bindings are for 32-bit python only at present...