Re: [Evolution] More on Crashes

[Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com>]

On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 08:36:25 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-08-01 at 13:31 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > Thread 1 (Thread 0x7ffff7efcac0 (LWP 3767)):
> > #0  0x00007fffee7df716 in gtk_css_gadget_queue_allocate
> > (gadget=0x5555576576b0)
> > at gtkcssgadget.c:976
> > #1  0x00007fffee8f40a6 in gtk_range_update_mouse_location (range=rang
> > e@entry=0x5
> > 5555797e1e0 [GtkScrollbar]) at gtkrange.c:3463  
>
>       Hi,
> okay, so it's crashing in gtk+. I found only one bug report with a
> reference to that function:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765410
>
> but it seems as a coincidence only. It can be that the crash is not
> known yet.
>
> You are right that it is related to the theme settings. I guess if
> you'll use Adwaita for the gtk3, then the crash will be gone (because
> the Adwaita is the default (and built-in in gtk+) theme, thus it is
> fine-tuned with compare of the other themes).

Hi,

JFTR I downgraded gnome-themes-standard from 3.20 to 3.18 and I used
Adwaita from 3.18 with Evolution 3.20.0 to 3.20.4. The reason to do so,
is that Adwaita from 3.20 breaks GTK2 apps and 3.18 at least doesn't
cause issues for GTK3 apps regarding my needs. The OP seems to need
GTK2 [1]. It's a known issue that with GTK3 most available themes are
broken. Not only people who made themes are not interested in GTK3
anymore and stop to follow upstream's idiotic changes, also a lot of
coders switched to Qt or discontinued their software [2].

There are still a lot of good GTK2 and Qt apps and while the amount
of GTK3 apps independent of GNOME project decreases, the amount of other
apps increases.

It doesn't help much, if somebody fix an Evolution issue caused by a
theme, if using the latest Adwaita breaks a high amount of other apps.

IMO the date to drop all GTK3 apps is close for most power users.

Regards,
Ralf

[1]
On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 16:32:41 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> System Settings->Application Style->Gnome Application Style (GTK)
>
> GTK Themes
>    GTK2 Theme: Breeze
>    GTK2 Theme: Breeze
>    Font: Cantarell 14

[2]
An example that hurts me a lot:
Death of ROXTerm
https://sourceforge.net/p/roxterm/discussion/422638/thread/60da6975/