The following patch to gnubiff fixes this problem, without requiring a change to gnome-panel.
Fix bug Launchpad 1876609 "gnubiff applet crashes when mail is received signal 5 in XGetWindowProperty"
Use g_idle_add instead of gdk_threads_enter / gdk_threads_leave so that gnome-panel does not need to call gdk_threads_init.
I have not changed gnubiff.cc as it does call gdk_threads_init and not changed gtk_image_animation.cc as I dont quite understand what it is doing.
The following patch to gnubiff fixes this problem, without requiring a change to gnome-panel.
Fix bug Launchpad 1876609
"gnubiff applet crashes when mail is received signal 5 in XGetWindowProperty"
Use g_idle_add instead of gdk_threads_enter / gdk_threads_leave
so that gnome-panel does not need to call gdk_threads_init.
I have not changed gnubiff.cc as it does call gdk_threads_init animation. cc as I dont quite understand
and not changed gtk_image_
what it is doing.