[Xastir] CoverSplit symbol issue with rtree in Fedora 7 ... may have found the bug

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 08:49:21AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Tom Russo wrote:
> 
> > On another note, Fedora is completely dropping OpenMotif because its license
> > is considered incompatible with Fedora's, so Fedora users will
> > no longer have access so some of the dialog box tricks that Xastir plays.
> 
> Just to be clear, it's not a trick.  Standard Motif programming
> techniques.  You're allowed to change a dialog that's currently
> displayed and it is supposed to recompute all the widget geometries
> and redisplay the appropriate thing.  Motif does it properly,
> Lesstif does not.

Nod.

But apparently enough applications work Just Fine with LessTif that it is
seen as a completely viable replacement.  So most applications must not
do the changing of a dialog in the same way that Xastir does.  *shrug*
At the moment, Xastir is set up so that lesstif users get a less snazzy
view of Xastir than OpenMotif users do, just to work around this bug.  There's
probably a different way to go about it so that we don't have bugs to work
around.  

Then again, maybe we should get started on Xastir 2 so we don't use Motif
at all ...

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