[arch-general] Chromium crashes KDE 4.5.1

[Madhurya Kakati]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Peter Lewis <pete at muddygoat.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 September 2010 at 02:17 Madhurya Kakati wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Adriano Moura <adriano.lols at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> > 2010/9/13 Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh at lutzhaase.com>
>> >
>> >>  On 13.09.2010 18:38, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> > I am using Chromium 6.0.x with KDE 4.5.1. Whenever any website
>> >> > presents a dialog box asking for confirmation for something (for
>> >> > example in gmail if i close the tab without logging out it presents a
>> >> > dialog box asking for confirmation) and after i click on any button on
>> >> > it the kde panel crashes. Also, i suspect plasma crashes too but
>> >> > applications that are open including chromium do not crash. This
>> >> > happened even in KDE 4.4.However it happens in KDE only and not in any
>> >> > other DE. Please tell me why this happens and how to stop it from
>> >> > happening.
>> >> > Thanks.
>> >> >
>> >> > P.S- Telling me to stop using KDE is not an appropriate answer :P
>> >>
>> >> Using that exact setup and haven't seen this crash yet. Do you have any
>> >> error logs after starting the panel manually?
>> >
>> > Is qt-gtk-engine used as the widget theme for gtk apps?
>>
>> Yes i am using the GTK engine. is it causing the problem?
>
> Well it seems like that's not necessarily (the whole of) the problem, but I
> have noticed qt-gtk-engine crashes some programs sometimes. A good bet is just
> to try it again using some standard bundled theme first and see if the same
> behaviour is reproduced.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pete.
>

Without a gtk engine the gtk apps look ugly in KDE. :(