Ned Konz wrote:
 Instead of having to stick things in windows (or other containers), if there
> was a more general way to specify the arrangement constraints of UI elements
> (along with wiring up the events, etc.) then that could be used both to glue
> UI elements together into tools and to glue those tools into task-oriented
> snapshots of a workbench or desktop configuration. Windows themselves aren't
> needed for this purpose, though it is nice to have common UI elements for
> resizing and grabbing.

I played with the Components framework yesterday, and I had a fun time
trying 
to make a FileList kind of tool. I got it working after a while and all
it 
took was two lines of code. 

Karl