Hm, makes me think of <a href="http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2008/06/22/observations-on-test-driving-user-interfaces" rel="nofollow">http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2008/06/22/observation...</a> .<p>It sounds... scary. Like it will work well enough at first, and then explode when someone changes their desktop theme (especially icon theme), or wants to upgrade to a new version of whatever. Treating things as change-controlled APIs when they aren't just seems dangerous. Still I guess there's at least some amount of change control coming from platform conventions and human interface guidelines, and this comes closer to operating at the correct level of abstraction to benefit from that.