started control-panel, selected theme "BrushedMetal", clicked "Ok". Got 2 dialog boxes immediately. 1. Applicaion "panel" (process 663) has crashed due to a fatal error. (segmentation fault) 2. Application "gnome-terminal" (process 799) has crashed due to a fatal error. (segmentation fault)
reassigned to control-center; control-panel is the little Tk/python thing that's been there since 4.0. :)
jrb - check this out. It might be better now that we have decreased the huge number of themes. Still there might be an issue here.
I am unable to duplicate this. Brushed Metal seems fine to me. Anyway, the theme selector capplet was recently made a lot more robust. If you could upgrade to a newer version, and tell me if you can still get it to crash, I'd appreciate it.