Showstopper: OOo restricts theme choices

[Michael B. Trausch]

OpenOffice.org crashes when certain combinations of themes and icons are used in the remainder of the user interface. This is a fatal and critical failure in this component of the system. I cannot verify if this is also the case for IA32 or PPC systems, but I would suspect it would be. The problem's symptoms are below in the original report I made for this bug.

Original Report:

Consistently, when I attempt to select any item from a context menu in a document in Writer or Calc, OpenOffice locks up. Apport is not catching a crash, and when I run it from a terminal, the same error is displayed (see attachment to come).

The only way to close is it to force it to close by sending it a signal.

This is a critical bug and can be reproduced even after removing all OpenOffice data in ${HOME}.

This is on a fully up-to-date Gutsy system running on a dual-core AMD64 system. The system is running a 64-bit kernel and userland.

[Neatchee (neatchee)]

Confirmed on AMD64 single core running Gutsy x86_64 and userland. Attached is terminal output.

[Michael B. Trausch (mtrausch)]

Marking confirmed per confirmation marked by Neatchee.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

I am not able to reproduce the crash on amd64 Ubuntu with a default setup.

What GTK theme are the two of you using?

Chris

[Michael B. Trausch (mtrausch)]

On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 12:32 +0000, Chris Cheney wrote:
>
> I am not able to reproduce the crash on amd64 Ubuntu with a default
> setup.
>
> What GTK theme are the two of you using?

I am using the Crux controls, the mwm-north window decoration, standard
mouse pointer, and Gartoon icons.

The Crux GTK+ theme comes with the system.

Why is OOo so sensitive to the theme? I changed to another custom theme
that I have and it worked just fine. That makes this bug all the more
critical: It isn't immediately clear that you have to have a specific
theme to use OOo. In fact, that's downright asinine---the _last_ thing
that should make a piece of software crash is the theme you are using.

 --- Mike

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[luisaso (luisasolarf)]

It's true. The Linsta theme that i used to use in feisty does not work properly any more in Open Office 2.3. Just some themes works well. The problem is that you can't open a dialog window like page setup because open office just crush, some times affecting all operating system because i wasn't enable to restart or shut down, when the button was pressed nothing happen,and this was after, a lot of tries and crashes in open office.