Problems with dialog box buttons in Eclipse (SWT applications?)

[dnyaga]

This is the most amorphous bug report I have ever had to file (I am unable to characterize the bug in detail), but it is a definite regression (and a severe one). I do not trust my words to do justice to it, so I shall attach a short video clip of my desktop (showing one instance in which the bug shows up) then a commentary describing all the places where I have encountered it.

My Karmic desktop is fully updated.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 8 12:00:44 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.172
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64

[dnyaga (daniel-nyaga)]

In this screen grab, I am running the SpringSource tool suite. For the demonstration, I attempt to create a new project. The "Browse" button is "dead" - gets highlighted when clicked, no response. These applications (Eclipse and derivatives) are not Ubuntu packaged, and are based on the Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) release.

I chose this short clip to demonstrate the behavior, which occurs all over the Eclipse derived apps (including "plain" Eclipse itself and other apps based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform).

In my view, these are not bugs in Eclipse/Springsource Tool Suite/etc but rather _recent_ regressions in Ubuntu. I have been coding happily with these tools on Ubuntu for many months. I upgraded this system to Karmic about a fortnight ago. My tools still worked fine. Then, at a point that I cannot determine precisely, the flaky behavior started. I update my system daily.

I have not experienced any issues with plain Java apps like Netbeans or Mono/C based GTK apps. My (unproven) hypothesis is that this has something to do with SWT. I have seen other SWT bugs affecting Karmic on Launchpad. However, they all seem to be focused on different issues. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/391398 has many, many duplicates. However, I have not seen any segfault or had problems with listboxes (probably because I don't get far enough in the app to use listboxes).

My system is fully up to date. I am not an expert at debugging GTK issues. I will therefore be happy to take instruction on what to do to fully characterize this bug.

[alejandro gonzález (ale-g-gonzalez)]

Also affects me on Karmic 32bit

[Fabian Ferreyra (fferreyra)]

I have the same problem on Karmic beta, 32 bits, with all updates. Using Java 6 from repositories.

[Lee Daffern (lee-digitalscream)]

Same here - tried Eclipse from repository and direct download from eclipse.org, as well as OpenJDK and Sun Java 6 from repo. Tried installing eclipse-gcj from the repo, but there's a version mismatch in the dependencies (eclipse-gcj is 3.2, everything else is 3.5).

Sort of suggests it might be a problem with Java, since I got the same problem with both versions of Eclipse.

[Peter Würtz (pwuertz)]

Right, this is a GTK+SWT bug.

It has been resolved upstream...
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=287307

... and in the Ubuntu packages
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/443004