Pidgin 2.6.6 use the default theme instead of the configured theme for GTK 2.0

[Daniel Atallah]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:17, gialloporpora <gialloporpora at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all pidgin users,
> yesterday I have updated to Pidgin 2.6.6 on Windows XP SP3 from version 2.5,
> and I have encountered 2 problems with Pidgin:
> 1) (solved with Google) when starting Pidgin an error of file missing
> (iconv.dll) appear, I have fixed it
> 2) Now Pidgin have the default theme and not the GTK theme as before of
> updating it
>
> I have no fixed the second problem, I have tried to search without finding
> anything.
> The GTK theme is well configured, if I run the GTK theme selector:
> %commonprogramfiles%\gtk\2.0\bin\gtkthemeselector.exe
>  i uses the correct theme:
>  <_img src="gtk.png" border="0" />
>
>
>  but when I start Pidgin it uses the default theme:
>
>  http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/5083/pidgin.png
>
>
>  before to update to version 2.6 all worked fine.
>  Somebody could help me to solve this problem (not very important)?
>  Since I have installed Gimp, is it possible that it have installed another
> GTK version and that now Pidgin use this new version?
>  It exists a way to know  the path of DLL loaded by Pidgin? In this way I
> could see what version of GTK is loaded by Pidgin.

Help->About will tell you which GTK+ version is in use.

ProcessExplorer
(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx) will
tell you which DLLs are in use.

The problem is almost certainly caused by a conflicting GTK+ installation.

-D