Re: is xaw3d still necessary?
* Ivan Shmakov <ivan@theory.asu.ru> [080625 09:06]:
> Now that Xaw3d has not seen a release in five years [1], and as
> Xaw allows for even more slicky UI (and seems to be still
> maintained upstream), couldn't the xaw3d package be removed and
> all the packages depending on it switched to use Xaw instead?
Do you have some documentation about porting programs from xaw3d to Xaw?
(ideally without too large changes in the UI).
While some programs once were able to use both, many use some of the
advanced features of xaw3d. And I've not yet seen more than allegations
that the 3d look and feel is easily possible with Xaw.
(I guess most importantly scroll bars, most young people nowadays have
no clue how to use the left-click-right-click Xaw scrollbars).
Xaw3d really needs some love (it seems to have been forged off Xaw
before that was extended to support prototypes for example), and a
sane and doable way to replace it with Xaw while still looking and
behaving the same would be very welcome, but even if it was possible
I guess it would need many years as not many people know Xt (and even
less people know it proper, so most Xt using programs already only
support a minor subset of its capabilities, making porting much harder).
> This would solve Bug#329987 in particular.
As this only requests an Xaw version, this bug does not need xaw3d to
be removed to implement that one...
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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