Re: A Proposal For The Addition Of Color-Reactiveness To The GNOME Desktop

[Tom Tromey <tromey cygnus com>]

Bowie> B) Tying it to /proc, although the most obvious solution, may
Bowie>    not be the best in the long run due to the fact that /proc
Bowie>    (or even /proc equivalents) do not exist on other platforms.

You can't use /proc because it isn't network-transparent.
People can, and frequently do, run X applications over the network.

Tom