- should have an intelligent way of mapping color use to color name likewise fonts - ulset.tcl is not very easy to use should write class to manage menubar this could integrate ulset functionality and also balloon help should look at iwidgets 2.2 again to make sure we aren't gratuitously incompatible - add more bitmaps/gifs from S-N - use a real gettext, not the dummy one we have now see if it is possible to use some of the gnu code, for instance xgettext. the runtime code must be written by us; probably just use db - rewrite the canvas patches as a pure extension the current situation is terrible later, use a different layout algorithm. ISI sucks. See: A Technique for Drawing Directed Graphs Emden R Gansner, Eleftherios Koutsofios, Stephen C. North, and Kiem-Phong Vo IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Vol 19, No 3 - must have sensible way to track toplevel state and save in database - a way to make optionmenus which are statically sized to the correct width