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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