Re: Infrastructural complexity.

[martin rudalics]

> I think there is confusion in this thread because
> "tear of *windows*" aren't a feature that's commonly
> used.

Good.  I hope this means we don't have to care about tear-off "windows"
any more.

> Tear-off menus and toolbar controllers are
> commonly used (and are nice to use).

And these can be implemented independently from window groups.

> Those tiny windows could be modeled nicely, I
> think, as framelets:  frames with a non-nil parent.

What is the parent of a frame?  Not an Emacs concept, I presume.

martin