Plans for the future

Since neXtaw (and its relatives Xaw3d, XawM and so on) are not exactly bleeding edge, there is no rush to implement lots of new features. The library is mostly fine as it is, within the limitations of the Xaw3d API. The most important thing is to keep the library up to date, to prevent bit rot and make sure that it remains useful.

But that would be boring, and we can't have that. Here is, therefore, a small wishlist that will be implemented as time and interest permits. Anyone is invited to participate, either with these goals or ones of your own.

More widgets

There are lots of widgets in Siag Office and other sources that would make a useful addition to many applications. See, for example, Ed Falk's survey. Rather than adding them to neXtaw, which would make it incompatible with other libraries, they should go into a separate library.

From the top of my head, this includes:

The whole menu kit
Combo widget
Tab widget
File selector widget
Text field
Tree widget

This is currently underway in the Mowitz project.

Features from elsewhere

XawM has keyboard traversal.
XawXpm has amazing eyecandy capability
Aterm has fake background transparency