> > There is another issue, which is more "purist" in nature: the number of
> > programs that get notified of a restart should be kept as small as
possible.
>
> If I get a redraw event, I don't have any idea whether it's because
> I've been deiconified, because Netscape has been iconified, because the
> screen saver has just exited, because the user has invoked the "redraw
> screen" command, or because the system has restarted.
shap