[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#815176: staden: Gap4 contig editor does not show sequences

[James Bonfield]

Hello,

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 01:40:25PM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote:
> Am 20.02.2016 um 08:33 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> > Hi Kerstin,
> > 
> > thanks agein for your bug report.  I agree that this problem might be a
> > bit more tricky than the other bug.  I have a slight suspicion that this
> > user oriented issue might be connected to a later Tcl/Tk version than
> > you might have used before.
> 
> I checked it on my computer at home, which is a 64-bit machine: same
> problem.

I can see this problem myself on Gap4 (I'm the upstream maintainer
btw), but Gap4 isn't something we support well any more as Gap5 has
replaced it.

The fundamental problem here is change in window manager behaviour
over the years.  Gap4's contig editor is, well, idiosyncratic!  The Y
size is controlled by the program as you scroll along the editor,
unlike Gap5's which is fixed.   This behaviour while being legitimate
is no longer the norm and most window managers don't work well in such
situations any more.  In this case they simply ignore the windows own
request for setting the height, meaning it defaults to zero.

I'll see how easy it is to bodge it to cope with modern window
managers.

James

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