It sounds to me like a widget, at least as smurth envisions it, is "a standalone piece of LS configuration code (and optionally graphics) that performs a useful function." So... a script that gets weather, a volume control "thingy", a package of definitions to make a particular model of multimedia keyboard play nice with LS - all of those *could* be widgets. They could also be part of a theme. I guess the question is, do we want to post/distribute both themes and widgets (AKA parts of themes), or just themes in their entirety, as has been the tradition?