FS#47569 - [lesstif] Problems with ddd, should be replaced by openmotif.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Olivier (olive) - Wednesday, 30 December 2015, 14:28 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Friday, 01 September 2017, 20:28 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 4
Private No

Details

Description:
ddd has severe refreshing problems. Scrolling is not smooth at all and a lot of warning are displayed if launched in a terminal. Building it against openmotif fixes the problem.

The upstream developers of lesstif warns against using it, tellig it is unmaintained and buggy and suggest to use motif instead, see: http://lesstif.sourceforge.net/. I think it is what Archlinux should do. A few packages need updating.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
lesstif 0.95.2-6 and ddd 3.3.12-7
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
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Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Friday, 01 September 2017, 20:28 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by Colin Heinzmann (DepthDeluxe) - Friday, 08 January 2016, 05:59 GMT
Tried out building ddd with openmotif instead of lesstif and while I didn't notice any differences in performance (both were really fast), I did see less warning messages when using openmotif. That being said, it does appear that the developers of lesstif are highly discouraging using this software in favor of openmotif like Eric said.

It does appear that it is not possible to have both openmotif and lesstif installed on a system at the same time so we must recompile all other programs that are dependent on lesstif as well. From https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/lesstif/ it appears the list of dependent programs is:

ddd
fbida
freewrl
grace
nedit
xlockmore
vtk (make)

After recompiling and publishing them, we could remove the lesstif package from the database.
Comment by Javier (jevv) - Sunday, 07 August 2016, 04:48 GMT
Should add:

xpdf
Comment by Javier (jevv) - Sunday, 07 August 2016, 04:49 GMT
Any reason why not migrating to openmotif yet?

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