Eclipse luna crashes on new project in Kubuntu 14.04

I'm having some trouble getting Eclipse Luna to work. I downloaded the tar.gz from their site and I downloaded the tar.gz for the Java JDK. I extracted everything and Eclipse opens properly, but when I try to make a new project, it crashes on me. In the terminal I ran java -version and it tells me I have version 1.8.0_25 so I don't think I have an issue with java. Now, this happens if I try to make any kind of project. Eclipse opens the wizard for creating a new project of a particular type and then the whole application crashes. I'm using Kubuntu 14.04. Any ideas?

Solution 1:

As indicated in Eclipse auto shutdowns when creating new project one workaround to this bug is to change the GTK2 theme in System Preferences -> Application Appearance -> GTK (I personally use Aurora: sudo apt-get install -y gtk2-engines-aurora).

Alternatively, a patch to oxygen is available here, and has been pushed to the active development branch of oxygen. oxygen-gtk2-1.4.6-1 should be OK but as of now oxygen-gtk2-1.4.5 is still the most recent stable version.