GIMP Quartz broken on 10.7, perhaps gtk

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi!

I decided to bite the bulled and update things also on my 10.6 system, 
which I use as stable. I tried to update only certain core building 
packages which I use for ArcticFox, without affecting gimp, but at one 
point I had gimp crashing at startup, but revdep *not* detecting 
anything wrong.
I upgraded gimp too (it needs just one patch) and it starts again, 
however it exhibts the same issues as on 10.7: all comes up, but no text 
anywhere in the interface!

Lukas Oberhuber wrote:
> It's definitely gtk2 based. `gtk-osx-application` is its own project, 
> which is at version 3 or so (I presume from your listing). GIMP 2.99 
> is the first GIMP version that works with gtk3.

This is interesting, how can it be checked further? While upgrading 
gimp, gtk3 got pulled in! Maybe that's the issue?

> I think this is a reasonable assumption that this is the font 
> packages, rather than gtk2, but really hard to know. I've found 
> debugging font related problems hard, because there are so many 
> packages and factors involved.

If someone has a clue.. I was thinking of downgrading one or the other 
library with a local repository and rebuilding. That could help 
pin-pointing the issue. But where to start?

Riccardo