Comment 7 for bug 537275

Seems to be fixed upstream. From https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612956:

Backported Mitch's fix from master to gimp-2-6:

commit 501c4f65f08c111df0654cb887d95c2c06e82710
Author: Nils Philippsen <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Mar 24 18:08:01 2010 +0100

    backport statusbar code needed for GTK+ >= 2.19.1

    Use the hbox that is provided via gtk_statusbar_get_message_area()
    since GTK+ 2.19.1.

 app/display/gimpstatusbar.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Could this patch be applied against the Ubuntu package? That will be great!