[interfacekit] Re: Wid-gits

Mail is, irritatingly enough, being spotty again, so forgive me if I've 
missed some crucial point in this conversation.

>>My personal hypothesis is that the o: threads are shadows for 
specialized
>>widgets that need to bump off the app_server in the way that windows 
and
>>apps do, for example menus (which also happen to appear very nicely in 
the
>>workspaces app).

I'm not sure what other widgets you may be thinking of, but BMenus 
actually own a BWindow, which is why they show up in the workspaces app. 
 Scrollbars are also drawn by the app_server.  Every other widget, to my 
knowledge, is drawn in client code.

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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it 
as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
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