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Your plans all sound good to me.

    On a closely related matter, it seems that some corners of the code
    _could_ work with multiple GUI output devices, e.g. W32 and X, 

This could only be useful on non-free platforms like Windows.  We
should not hold back major cleaning up and improving Emacs just to
cater to Windows better.  Windows support is ok, but that should not
get in the way of other things.