Bug#385026: Possible workaround to this bug

[Attilio Fiandrotti]

Hi

Today Rui Lopes proposed a workaround to this bug: using the clearlooks 
GTK engine to perform widget drawing.
As Rui proved, clearlooks engine performs correctly all those widget 
rendering operations that are badly performed by gtkdfb (libpixmap?).
Both Rui and me were able to compile corretly the engine library and 
also to run successfully the cdebconf with GTK frontend, the GIMP and 
the gtk-demo app.
This bug was already reported upstream and GTKDFB maintainer said he now 
has a clue about where to look at to fix it.
But, as d-i RC1 date is getting closer and he may not make it in time, 
having an option to a proper fix for this bug may be advisable.
With this mail i'm trying to investigate if using the clearlooks engine 
as default in the graphical debian-installer is a reasonable idea.

thanks

Attilio
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