tag 279402 +patch retitle 279402 xastir: LessTif bug causes menu items to be incorrectly positioned thanks
> It might be a LessTif bug rather than XASTIR. Unsure. After seeing this bug raport I decided to try if xastir would work better when compiled against Open Motif instead of LessTif. I fetched and unpacked xastir's debianized source (1.4.1-2) and installed all of it's build depencies except for lesstif2-dev, which I substituted with libmotif-dev (2.2.3-1) from non-free. After building xastir, overriding the build depencies by giving '-d' option to dpkg-buildpackage, and installing the resulting package the menus worked just fine. Next I reinstalled vanilla 1.4.1-2 from archives and tried if recompiling LessTif (1:0.93.94-11) would help. No such luck. After some browsing of LessTif's CVS and changelog I found following changelog entry: > 2004/10/21 21:23:28 > author: dannybackx > lib/Xm-2.1/RCUtils.c(1.4) > > Fix by Dave Williss for his problem with label position in menus. > The thing that made it so hard to find was that it computes a left > margin, but to save memory, stores it in kid_geometry->margin_top. > > The fix to the problem is to change rcutils.c [...] > > Adding margin_top (which is really left margin) to the width seems > counter-intuitive to me, but without it, menu items which are > pull-right don't line up correctly. If this ends up breaking anything > else, it could probably be changed to only do it if the RowColumn is a > menu pane I fetched this change from LessTif's CVS [1], copied it over previous version of lib/Xm-2.1/RCutils.c (which, despite it's $Id$ tags, seems to be identical to revision 1.2 in current CVS) and rebuild the LessTif packages again. After installing this version (and restarting xastir) the problem vanished again. So it seems that this really is a LessTif bug and that there is a working patch for it. This bug probably needs to have it's severity inflated and to be either cloned or reassigned to LessTif (or maybe even merged with similar reports, like #287187). -kimju [1] http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/lesstif/lesstif/lib/Xm-2.1/RCUtils.c?rev=1.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
