Re: Reproducible gtk crash

[Simon Josefsson]

"Jan D." <address@hidden> writes:

> Ouch, this is nasty.  When running Gnome the new GTK file dialog uses 
> gnome-vfs as a backend, and gnome-vfs creates some threads.  But malloc 
> in Emacs can't handle different threads so we crash.  One workaround is 
> to set the use-old-gtk-file-dialog variable to t (it looks quite nice on 
> Debian testing).

I can confirm that the workaround works, thanks.  It bring back the
old file selection dialog that I'm used to, which I even prefer.  Btw,
shouldn't that variable be customizable?