Inkscape crashing in Kubuntu Maverick

[Michael Hirsch]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Helder Terra <helder.earth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since I've installed 10.10 Kubuntu, I've got a bug on Inkscape vector draw.
> It crashes as soon as I hit the document properties icon.
>
> Now, searching for a solution, I came upon a list that discusses the problem
> and gives possible solutions. One of them was to change the icon set of
> applications from Oxygen to Gnome, but I like the looks of my Kubuntu the
> way it is.
>
> Still researching for a solution, I read in a list the following action:
>
> "If I symlink document-properties.png (of oxygem-icon-theme) to
> gtk-properties.png, inkscape also stops crashing.
> Using qtcurve and oxygen iconset."
>
> The problem is I don't have any idea of how to do it, so if anyone here had
> the same issue, or know what that solution is, I sincerely ask for help.

I _think_ what they are saying is that inkscape is looking for a file
gtk-properties.png to display, and oxygen doesn't provide it.  You
need to fool inkscape.

So, "locate document-properties.png" should fine if for you.  I have
some in gnome and in oxygen of various sizes:
/usr/share/icons/gnome/16x16/actions/document-properties.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/actions/document-properties.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/actions/document-properties.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/actions/document-properties.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/16x16/actions/document-properties.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/22x22/actions/document-properties.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/32x32/actions/document-properties.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/48x48/actions/document-properties.png

I think you can ignore the gnome ones.

Now for each of the oxygen files, cd to the directory holding the file
(e.g. /usr/share/icons/oxygen/16x16/actions/) and run
    ln -s document-properties.png gtk-properties.png
After doing that for each of the oxygen icons, start inkscape and see
if it still crashes.

Hope that works!

Michael