[interfacekit] Re: Wid-gits

>I concede the loss of widget-drawing capability on the part of the
>app_server.  The lamentation was because, I thought it would be neat if
>you could reroute calls to the app_server (from windows, widgets, et
>cetera) across a network (and I guess XWin does this) and to an 
app_server
>somewhere else.  But I guess you can do that anyway (heh) -- just send
>them to a different port, or, as BMessages instead...  In any case, 
it's
>not that hard at all.

Bingo!  Although I personally have absolutely no *real* use for this 
sort of thing, I'm pretty gung-ho on making it happen (yes, post-R1) 
just so I can interact on my system with an interface for an app running 
on another one.  For some crazy reason, that just stinks of cool to me. 
=)

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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it 
as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
        -Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobelist 
(1875-1965)

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