Comment 12 for bug 445435

Thanks Jean-Francois, it appears that the root cause of this problem is indeed https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581150 as noted in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597974. Switching to Crux theme caused all my evolution hanging to disappear; Switching back to Human theme causes the hanging problem.

Attached is a screenshot showing the email with the test.tiff from the thread above sent using Thunderbird from my gmail account. (using the web interface for gmail does not produce the error as noted previously). This same email hangs my evo under the Human theme.

Is gtk2-engines the right package for this issue now? This affects the default karmic themes, so I hope it is soon. Good news is I can run evolution on a less pretty desktop for the time being, and so can a number of other users I suspect are probably blaming evolution.