I've looked around and a report on the opensSUSE forum suggests it's a problem with the QTcurve gtk theme. This makes sense as running the app as root will use another theme and so bypass the error causing issue
I've looked around and a report on the opensSUSE forum suggests it's a problem with the QTcurve gtk theme. This makes sense as running the app as root will use another theme and so bypass the error causing issue