actually, it helped a great deal. i switched back to the previous theme and now both evolution and k3b work fine.
maybe i'll take it slow next time and only change one...thing...at...a...time. thanks again CLUG! i don't know what i'd do without the kind and generous help of everyone here. my thanks again! On Mon, 2005-29-08 at 23:48 -0600, Jesse Kline wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 18:24 -0600, Mike Bougie wrote: > > > QPixmap: Invalid pixmap parameters > > QPainter::begin: Cannot paint null pixmap > > QPainter::setPen: Will be reset by begin() > > QPainter::setBrush: Will be reset by begin() > > QPainter::setBrush: Will be reset by begin() > > QPainter::setPen: Will be reset by begin() > > > > and as far as "messing around with themes" goes, i wasn't doiing > > anything big, just trying to change the appearance of the GUI. Should > > I just return everything to its default? > > Actually I think the problem with evolution is the theme. The errors > listed above are caused by a broken gtk-qt-engine. Evolution uses the > gtk+ toolkit unlike the KDE applications which use the QT toolkit. So if > evolution is the only GTK app. that your using, it would explain why you > are only seeing the problem with that application. I think that your k3b > problem is completely unrelated. I would switch back to the default > theme, and see if evolution will start. If so, then you can see which > themes it has a problem with. You can also switch to a native gtk theme > by running gnome-theme-manager. Or you can try updating your copy of > gtk-qt-engine. The latest version is available at > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fgtk_2dqt I hope this helps, > if you have any other questions just let me know. > > Jesse > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
