Well, I can tell you right now, this happens to me every single time I
use the theme manager. thats right. every time. it doesn't kill my
system, I always stop it before then, but open it up, cpu hits 100%, and
stays there till I close it(or the system halts, as in your case). I
have yet been able to gdb down why it happens though.
This is one of many many problems, but several pertain to the preview
icon code I think. Like, sometimes on slower machines, or for no
apparent reason whatsoever all the preview icons simply kick back to
a ?. Not something I would want to see in supposedly more polished
release of the Desktop.
And I do I agree the whole thing needs a major overhaul, its got broken
functionality out the wazzoo, and more then one would prevent a release
in my opinion - example, with the 2.9 stain if I use a "custom" theme I
cannot scroll the list beyond whats visible. It bounces back to the top
when I try.
Andrew
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 21:03 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 17:36:57 -0800, Link Dupont <link subpop net> wrote:
> > gnome-theme-manager needs lots of love, in my opinion, but then again I
> > was against the whole "meta theme" thing from the beginning...
>
> I really didn't mean this to turn into a 'bash theme-manager' thing; I
> hope no one else does, unless they plan to fix them or rewrite it in
> the next couple weeks. It has flaws, but so do a lot of things in our
> desktop. This is the only flaw that I would try to hold up a release
> over (that I know of, having read all ~40 open theme-manager bugs this
> morning.)
>
> Luis
>
> > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 15:10 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> > > Well, sort of. I had to reboot today, because gnome-theme-manager ate
> > > my machine. That's... not good. Sadly, not the first time, but the
> > > last couple times I said 'surely, someone else will notice and this
> > > will be fixed by the next release'. This time I'm not being slack-
> > > I've filed a bug about gnome-theme-manager performance:
> > >
> > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160803
> > >
> > > and judging from comments in #gnome-art, i'm not the first to be
> > > bitten by this (though AFAICT I'm the first to file a bug about it,
> > > which is pretty poor on my part.)
> > >
> > > Anyway... I'd really love it if someone could take a look at it. It's
> > > pretty embarassing that we ship something as part of the desktop that
> > > can cause such extreme system loads under even casual use.
> > >
> > > Thanks-
> > > Luis