Windows: "Metal" theme crashes Gtk2 theme selector

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Sun, 12 Oct 2014 13:00:08 
<2349BCE6-4DFD-4E63-8A83-7265C992352D at ceridwen.us>  John Ralls 
<jralls at ceridwen.us>

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>On Oct 12, 2014, at 10:04 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> On Oct 12, 2014, at 1:54 AM, Hemanshu Kumar <hemanshusubs at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am using GnuCash 2.6.4-1 on Windows 8.1.
>>>
>>> When I use the Gtk2 Theme Selector program, selecting the "Metal" theme in
>>> the list (i.e. merely highlighting it, without pressing "OK") immediately
>>> crashes the program, with a Runtime Error being reported by Microsoft
>>> Visual C++ Runtime library in the program gtk2_prefs.exe
>>>
>>> Please advise how to fix this.
>>
>> Wow, cool. The reason you don't have to hit "OK" to make it crash is 
>>that the Theme Selector is trying to apply the theme to itself, so 
>>whatever is causing the crash happens immediately.
>>
>> I can speculate that the crash is due to a mismatch between the 
>>binary images for the Metal theme and the dependent libraries we're 
>>shipping for 2.6.4-1 (and 2.6.4-2); we had to recompile those 
>>dependent libraries to get GnuCash itself to draw its UI correctly. 
>>Seems we need to do that for the themes as well.
>
>I can replicate the crash, when run from a terminal session it produces 
>the additional output "warning: Invalid parameter passed to C runtime 
>function.”, which supports my belief that it needs to be recompiled 
>with the current MinGW environment. However, the Metal theme and engine 
>were removed from gnome-themes, so it’s not going to be in future 
>GnuCash releases.

I don't expect my opinion to be popular but I'm of the opinion that a 
minimalist set of themes is what is required.

We're meant to be doing accounting not gazing at backgrounds, after all.

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