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From: jan@golf.canberra.edu.au (Jan Newmarch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Why `widgets'?
Keywords: history
Message-ID: <jan.664416457@golf>
Date: 21 Jan 91 00:07:37 GMT
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Just after a bit of history: who decided to call Xt objects `widgets'?
And why? What exactly does the word mean? (My dictionary hasn't even
caught up with Xlib yet :-().

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