[Pidgin Plugins] #314: Guifications causes close crash when Gaim is Minimized

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#314: Guifications causes close crash when Gaim is Minimized
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Reporter:  rageboy04        |        Owner:  jbailey               
    Type:  Bugs             |       Status:  new                   
Priority:  4                |    Component:  Guifications 2.x Win32
 Version:  Current Release  |   Resolution:                        
Keywords:                   |  
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Comment (by rageboy04):

 No no one is working on it right now I don't think, but that's good to
 know. Maybe I'll look into it a little more now. I didn't see any sort of
 starting point last time I checked, but I also didn't go as in depth as
 you. Thanks.

 Replying to [comment:5 lmfe]:
 > This crash bug is very annoying in Windows, and I can reproduce it
 > always. So I have downloaded the guifications beta7 source, and
 > started some experiences.
 >
 > This crash only seems to happen with an account enabled. It's probably
 > related with finalization of the buddy list (wild guess).
 > What I have found is that it's somehow related with
 > gf_item_text_init(). If I comment out the map (and context)
 > initialization (lines 104 and 115), it will not crash anymore. But I'm
 > sure the text wont render correctly.
 >
 > My bet is that this is actually a bug in pango... but since I know
 > very little about GTK (and nothing about Pango), I couldn't make a
 > patch with a workaround. Is anyone looking at this?
 >
 > Thanks

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Ticket URL: <http://plugins.guifications.org/trac/ticket/314#comment:6>
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