Core 5: OpenMotif 2.3.0 (beta 2) far too buggy! It cripples apps....

[Leon]

Rob <spamrefuse at yahoo.com> writes:

> Leon wrote:
>> Rob writes:
>> 
>> 
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Any idea why this buggy OpenMotif release 2.3.0 made
>>>it into the Fedora Core 5 ?
>>>
>>>It is still in its beta2 status, which now cripples
>>>applications such as Grace (2D graphics software).
>> 
>> 
>> Grace works here. What exactly is wrong with it?
>
> This:
>
> http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=569
>
> (posted by someone else, but I have exactly the
> same problem).
>
> Meanwhile I have kind of solved it by removing the
> OpenMotif RPM package, and directly install the
> older version from sources. Recompile the grace
> sources against this and the problem goes away.
>
> Therefor I think that OpenMotif 2.3 is too buggy.
>
> Rob.
>

I haven't used grace much but I have seen this bug in my box too.

-- 
Leon