Bugzilla Bug 267231

After installing nitrogen (which didn't list librsvg as a dependency),
attempting to start nitrogen results in the following:

$ nitrogen
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Gdk::PixbufError'
Aborted

After installing gnome-base/librsvg, nitrogen starts correctly.  According to
http://bugs.l3ib.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=9 there is no direct
dependency on librsvg, but it may be missing from gtkmm.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run emerge nitrogen
2. Try to start nitrogen from the terminal
3. Nitrogen terminates


Actual Results:  
Nitrogen fails with:

$ nitrogen
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Gdk::PixbufError'
Aborted

Expected Results:  
Nitrogen should load up the wallpaper-changing GUI.

Running Openbox 3.4.7.2 on 2.6.29-gentoo-r1.

Not sure about the dependency on librsvg, but it does fix the problem.  Maybe
it should be included in the dependencies for either nitrogen, or more
appropriately, gtkmm?

Hey,

I had not much time to work with this bug but i believe its _not_ a nitrogen
problem.
I noticed that some other apps has the same problem (like dev-util/nemiver).
So perhaps a general gtkmm problem or somewhere else in this area.

I agree.  After looking through more documentation about nitrogen, and on their
user fora, it seems like the dependency on librsvg is more closely related to
gtkmm.  Is there something I should do to reassign the bug to the appropriate
person or team?

(In reply to comment #2)
> I agree.  After looking through more documentation about nitrogen, and on their
> user fora, it seems like the dependency on librsvg is more closely related to
> gtkmm.  Is there something I should do to reassign the bug to the appropriate
> person or team?
> 

Just CCed gnome-mm.
They might know more about that issue.

Created an attachment (id=197945) [details]
Revised ebuild including RDEPEND of librsvg

Though the Nitrogen team claims they don't have a direct dependency on librsvg,
it would seem that it is not a problem with gtkmm, as the latter can deal with
SVGs on its own:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bastien-dallapiazza/ggoban/main/revision/6

Further, it seems that others are fixing the problem by adding librsvg as a
dependency for Nitrogen:

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/nitrogen/

Whether or not this is a permanent solution, I believe it is in the best
interest of the users to at least temporarily add librsvg as a dependency for
Nitrogen.  Therefore, I have simply added it as a runtime dependency in the
ebuild and attached it here.

That workaround sounds good to me; just committed 1.4-r1.

Thank you very much, Nathan! :]