This is a CALL FOR ACTION. Distribute widely.
Wolfram wrote
- debian bug #354698 http://bugs.debian.org/354698 This is a bug recognized mainly by users which use inkscape under kdae and have the debian package gtk2-engines-gtk-qt installed. The package is used for different theming of gtk applications under KDE. You have it if there is an item "appearance-->gtk styles and themes" in your KControl menu. It causes duplicate inclusion of themes via different rc-files. Yuya Nishihara found out that this leads to a crash if the theme uses the smooth engine of gtk. Other applications are affected by this, too. So again, it seems this is not inkscape's fault. I contacted the debian maintainer of gtk2-engines-smooth about that but got no reply yet.
From the inkscape-0.44 Release Notes (Known Issues):
* Inkscape and other Gtk programs can crash on any Linux, when the gtk2-engines-smooth / libsmooth package is installed. We have filed a bug against libsmooth which is now in gtk-engine and part of gnome. Removing the package resolves the problem, however, but it would be nice if you as affected user would inform the gtk-engines maintainers of the problem. See especially http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312115 (thanks to Thomas Wood)
Please please speak up at that URL! This is the most annoying issue we have with inkscape on SuSE systems and STILL package maintainers are not aware of it.
Do not ignore this issue. Pester those unresponsive folks with good bug reports. Publish this widely. I cannot believe such ignorance still exists after ONE YEAR.
R Stephan (sorry for shouting)