Windows: "Metal" theme crashes Gtk2 theme selector

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Mon Apr 20 23:04:05 EDT 2015


> On Apr 20, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Wm <wm+gnc at tarrcity.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:30:29 <2774894.lXjaVylqgT at legolas.kobaltwit.lan> Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> 
>> On Monday 13 October 2014 16:26:06 Dave H wrote:
>>> I'll second that, there's far too many to choose from :-)
>>> 
>>> Cheers Dave H.
>>> 
>> I'm glad you see it this way.
>> 
>> We actually had a similar discussion on irc yesterday in which I said
>> the exact same thing.
>> 
>> Expect the next version of gnucash on windows to ship with a reduced set
>> of themes.
> 
> Gentle reminder about that but more importantly:
> 
> the infamous Metal theme still crashes the theme selector itself on both a clean Win 8.1 gnc 2.6.6 and as before on Win XP (tested on sep systems).
> 
> Not a big deal for me but I do think it should have been removed from the set as suggested OR if someone likes it, it should be renamed
> 
> Metal-Only-Use-Me-If-You-Were-Born-Feb-30-or-can-say-why-we-keep-this
> 
> or something similarly obvious.
> 
> it reliably kills gtk2_prefs.exe
> 
> I don't see the point in keeping a theme that kills a selector on OS's spanning over a decade.
> 
> The way my installs work the Metal theme is really crap from Win XP to Win 8.1
> 
> Why is it there?
> 
> Do the decent thing and remove it from the distribution, please.

Memory is dim, but I think I tried that a year or so ago and it made something else break, so I left it in.

Regards,
John Ralls




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