I was surprised the first time I wrote a GUI framework in C, and i happened to be like this as well, everything on the screen just happens to have the properties which a window has.. A position, bounds, a drawing call, some child elements. So it emerges naturally that everything is, at the very least, a window.
So yea, I'd argue this is not some strange quirk of the X-Window system, but rather a natural property which the wise hackers decided not to spend extra effort on trying to tame.
So yea, I'd argue this is not some strange quirk of the X-Window system, but rather a natural property which the wise hackers decided not to spend extra effort on trying to tame.