Hi, I tried to formulate a Mission Statement and I invite people to review it. It is Section 3 in the same document in which I gathered initial opinions: http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/as49/poll.pdf It basically says what the Common GUI API is. In my opinion it would be beneficial for us to agree on something like this statement. Otherwise I fear people will restart discussions on topics for which we already reached a consensus. Section 4 contains some comments from the GUI programmer perspective. Comments on this are welcome as well. In the near future I will browse through the achieves and extract opinions on the technical topics in Section 5. Before we agree on anything there, I think it would be a good idea to agree on the core. Daan, is the last version of the GIO core you posted what you propose as core? If so, I will add it to the document for scrutinization. Thanks for comments, Axel.