Having just hit this, it's unfair to blame any particular group. You
can't blame the eclipse team as "their code worked"; you can't blame the
GTK team as "they followed the spec". Its just together, it makes the
transition to Ubuntu 9:10 the most painful ubuntu upgrade for a while,
certainly I'm not enjoying it much on the two machines I've upgraded.

If you ever have the opportunity to look at the windows OS code, you
will see truckloads of compatbility flags that get set on an app-by-app
basis; MS believe that backwards compatibility is the strength of their
OS, though it adds to bloat, complicates testing, and hits performance
(more code to pull in, more branch misprediction). Apple take a stricter
view. I think here linux/ubuntu is taking the Apple view: you get it
wrong, you deal with it. While it will be dealt with, it is causing a
lot of short term pain.

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Buttons in Eclipse not working correctly with GTK+ 2.18.1-1
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