diff --git a/referencer-gconf-changes.patch b/referencer-gconf-changes.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6fdb5d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/referencer-gconf-changes.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+--- src/Preferences.C	2008-09-08 17:19:37.000000000 -0400
++++ src/Preferences.C.new	2009-06-28 20:17:00.672774503 -0400
+@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
+ 	 */
+ 	disabledPlugins_ = confclient_->get_entry (CONF_PATH "/disabledplugins");
+ 	Gnome::Conf::SListHandle_ValueString disable =
+-		confclient_->get_string_list (disabledPlugins_.get_key ());
++		confclient_->get_string_list (CONF_PATH "/disabledplugins");
+ 
+ 	configureButton_ = (Gtk::Button*) xml_->get_widget ("PluginConfigure");
+ 	configureButton_->signal_clicked().connect (
+@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@
+ 	}
+ 
+ 	std::vector<Glib::ustring> disable =
+-		confclient_->get_string_list (disabledPlugins_.get_key ());
++		confclient_->get_string_list (CONF_PATH "/disabledplugins");
+ 	std::vector<Glib::ustring>::iterator dit = disable.begin();
+ 	std::vector<Glib::ustring>::iterator const dend = disable.end();
+ 	if (plugin->isEnabled() == true) {
+@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@
+ 			disable.push_back(plugin->getShortName());
+ 
+ 	}
+-	confclient_->set_string_list (disabledPlugins_.get_key(), disable);
++	confclient_->set_string_list (CONF_PATH "/disabledplugins", disable);
+ }
+ 
+ 
+@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@
+ 	plugin->setEnabled (false);
+ 
+ 	std::vector<Glib::ustring> disable =
+-		confclient_->get_string_list (disabledPlugins_.get_key ());
++		confclient_->get_string_list (CONF_PATH "/disabledplugins");
+ 	std::vector<Glib::ustring>::iterator dit = disable.begin();
+ 	std::vector<Glib::ustring>::iterator const dend = disable.end();
+ 
+@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@
+ 	if (!found)
+ 		disable.push_back(plugin->getShortName());
+ 
+-	confclient_->set_string_list (disabledPlugins_.get_key(), disable);
++	confclient_->set_string_list (CONF_PATH "/disabledplugins", disable);
+ }
+ 
+ 
diff --git a/referencer.spec b/referencer.spec
index 3459895..475dc94 100644
--- a/referencer.spec
+++ b/referencer.spec
@@ -3,13 +3,14 @@
 Name:		referencer
 Summary:	A document organiser and bibliography manager for Gnome
 Version:	1.1.5
-Release:	6%{?dist}
+Release:	7%{?dist}
 Group:		Applications/System
 License:	GPLv2
 URL:		http://icculus.org/referencer
 Source0:	http://icculus.org/referencer/downloads/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Patch0:		referencer-pythondir.patch
 Patch1:		referencer-gcc44.patch
+Patch2:		referencer-gconf-changes.patch
 BuildRoot:	%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 BuildRequires:	poppler-glib-devel libgnomeuimm26-devel
 BuildRequires:	boost-devel gcc-c++ python-devel
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ import from BibTeX, Reference Manager and EndNote, and tagging.
 %setup -q
 %patch0 -p0 -b .pyt
 %patch1 -p0 -b .gcc44
+%patch2 -p0 -b .gconf
 
 %build
 %configure --disable-update-mime-database
@@ -79,6 +81,9 @@ update-mime-database %{_datadir}/mime &> /dev/null || :
 %{python_sitelib}/referencer/
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Jun 28 2009 Deji Akingunola <dakingun@gmail.com> - 1.1.5-7
+- Fix gconf key lookup if GConf disabledplugin key is not set (Denis Leroy, Fedora bug #508011)
+
 * Wed Feb 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.5-6
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild