Hello everyone!
As we needed Smach for an university project I decided to take a look in porting rqt_smach / smach_viewer to ROS Kinetic. Some things may still be broken but at least it is working at all!
NOTE: This is kind of work in progress - I'd love to get any feedback and will merge updates if you want to contribute any fixes! I will try to get into contact with jbohren but for the most recent issues and pull requests he was not willing to cooperate - that's surely one of the reasons why there is no kinetic support so far
This file is based on the instructions made by @jbohren in this file: rqt_smach.md - which is hard to find on the internet.
Clone xdot, executive_smach and executive_smach_visulization into your catkin workspace. Now run catkin_make / catkin build to build the packages. That's it - start rqt_smach by executing rosrun rqt_smach rqt_smach!
As jbohren states in his document you have to
To run rqt_smach, you must have [executive_smach_visulization] 1, [xdot] 2,and [executive_smach] 3 in your [catkin workspace] 4. Then build those packages using [catkin build] 5 or [catkin_make] 6. Once the packages are built, make sure you have a [roscore] 7 running,source your environment, and then execute the following command: rosrun rqt_smach rqt_smach --> The three mentioned packages are versions by himself, so far I did not try out if any of those can be replaced with the original version (mainly interesting for xdot).
I ported jbohrens smach visualization to ROS kinetic which you can find on my account executive_smach_visualization
Also you need an updated version of xdot which you will find here: xdot.
Both are on the kinetic branch.
Finally clone executive_smach itself.
Now run catkin_make / catkin build to build the packages.
Once the packages are built, make sure you have a roscore running,source your environment, and then execute the following command: rosrun rqt_smach rqt_smach
Known bugs: Zooming with the scroll wheel appears to be kind of broken, but zooming with ctrl+page[up/down] is working.
Tested on ROS Kinetic, Ubuntu 16.04.
Thanks very much, great help!