Comment 24 for bug 1005677

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Albert Astals Cid (aacid) wrote : Re: Re-emergence of "Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_style_get: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)'" Makes vlc and other Qt apps crashing crashing

The problem is that the old way that Qt had to tell Gtk not to use the overlay scrollbars (ubuntu_gtk_set_use_overlay_scrollbar) is now basically a noop since the new overlay-scrollbar hijacks the scrollbars at a different level (does not use os_scrollbar_new as it used to use).

It works for most Qt based programs because the new overlay-scrollbar code includes a check to not load itself if the qt_startup_hook symbol is present in the main binary of the problem, thus the issue only happens in programs like "vlc" or "bzr qlog" where Qt is loaded in a plugin of the main binary.