[Xastir] Good news, Bad news...

[Rick Green]

Good news:  We got lucky, and the latest Ubuntu release actually grabbed a 
fairly recent stable snapshot of xastir: 1.9.0

Bad news:  This version still doesn't play well with the Motif libraries 
that Ubuntu uses by default, so some of the dialog panels are missing 
label text, as are some of the buttons.  I did discover, however, that if 
you click slowly on the button, the button label appears faintly only 
while you have the mouse button pressed.  No matter if it was the button 
you wanted or not, the action indicated will be taken when you release the 
mouse button.  This led to a Grrr. when I briefly saw 'delete' appear on a 
button when I was expecting 'properties' in the interface dialog.

   I know the developers have been saying this is a bug in the motif 
libraries, but I don't see this artifact in any other applications which 
depend on those same libraries, so there must be some component of coding 
style involved as well...

-- 
Rick Green

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