detect and warn about installed libsmooth

[Rwst]

as the libsmooth crashes continue to be unfixed
upstream, inkscape should detect the existence of this
library itself and warn users with a simple dialog
before startup.

(10:20:49 AM) JonCruz: maybe we can add a dialog for
"you have evil installed. I'll die now"
(10:21:36 AM) rwst: maybe. but finding the bug would be
as easy as installing a libsmooth version with debug
info, and then reproducing it
(10:22:24 AM) JonCruz: but wouldn't that just tell us
how to get libsmooth fixed, not correct all the people
who already have a version of it out there?
(10:22:35 AM) rwst: that's true
(10:23:14 AM) JonCruz: I think then that we'd like to
do both
(10:23:26 AM) ***rwst agrees

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Originator: NO

I cannot find any reference to 'libsmooth' in the codebase. Is this still
present or has this lib been factored out?

[Aaron C Spike (acspike)]

Originator: NO

Bryce, I'm pretty sure this is a dep for certain gtk themes and something
in inkscape agravates their bug.

But maybe relaytool could be missused to do this checking?
http://autopackage.org/apbuild-relaytool.php

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Originator: NO

Can someone identify what that theme is? What is the bug that this
library triggers?

This is a confusing bug to track, without some more information... I'm
knocking it down in priority until we have a better picture of what it is.

[Prokoudine (prokoudine)]

Originator: NO

Bryce, this is most likely about one of buggy gtk engines

[vonHalenbach (lustik)]

I have found some information on the net: Got it!
Was a gtk theme bug, got the hint here (on bottom of the thread):
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=1787
Switching to another gnome theme solved it (broken theme was SmoothGnome btw).

This happened only, when an application is build with gtk1 and this theme is installed, as long as i understood it.

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Actually a bug in gtk-smooth-engine, fixed in version 2.10.0-1.

See notes at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=346174 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354698