On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Robert Dailey <[email protected]> wrote:
> If this was a DLL specific issue, wouldn't this problem occur in other
> applications as well? The fact that this issue does not exist in Firefox 3
> must mean this is an application-specific issue.

No, it just means that Firefox doesn't trigger it.  I've tried various
Windows theming products over the years, and in my experience they all
cause problems in some applications.  WindowBlinds was pretty well
behaved the last time I tried it, but even it caused weird problems in
some applications.

> I have no other way to apply visual themes in MS Windows.

I understand--but since Windows does not support an API for theme
switching, it all depends on how well the theme switcher authors have
reverse engineered internal Windows interfaces.  It's hard to get this
perfect.

> In addition, this only occurs on certain google websites. For example, edit
> boxes draw fine in GMail (The search edit box at the top) while the edit
> boxes when creating a new post on the google group page for this group do
> not. Can you explain this very specific behavior?

Not off hand--both work fine on my unpatched Windows boxes...

> Also keep in mind that not everyone who uses Chromium has the knowledge nor
> the time to develop it. The best I can do for the community is report the
> issue and hope that it gets backlogged and hopefully fixed in the future.

That's fine.  I was just trying to set realistic expectations; getting
it fixed may have to wait until someone who runs a patched system can
take the time to track down the problem and come up with a fix.
Making sure things work correctly in XP and Vista is a high priority,
and we have dedicated resources for testing and verifying that they
do.  Making sure everything works on patched systems is by nature a
much lower priority, but nothing's stopping someone from tracking it
down and submitting a fix.  I'm not saying it's *not* a bug in
Chromium, but unless it happens with the standard vesion of
uxtheme.dll, it seems more likely that the theme patch is what's at
fault.

--Amanda

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