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

[Bowie Poag <bjp primenet com>]

On 20 May 1998, Rob Browning wrote:

> Bowie Poag <bjp@primenet.com> writes:
> 
> > C = Clear, G = Green
> > 
> > Doing Nothing        CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC (Solid clear)
> > Running              GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG (Solid green)
> > Alert                CGCGCGCGCGCGCGCGCGCGCGCGCGCGCGCG (Fast blink)
> > Waiting              CCCCCCCGCCCCCCCGCCCCCCCGCCCCCCCG (Slow blink)
> > Connecting..         CCGGCCGGCCGGCCGGCCGGCCGGCCGGCCGG (Normal blinking)
> > Downloading..        CGGCGCGCGCCCGGGCGCCGCCCGCGGGGCCG (Random blinks)
> > 
> > See? With only two different colors, we're already able to depect five
> > different operational states, just by making them blink in different ways.
> > This demonstrates the flexibility I was talking about earlier. 
> 
> But what if the app wants to flash the light at a frequency directly
> proportional to the download rate?

Applications dont *directly* control the lamp. They can only issue
"states" to which the user specifies the behavior of the lamp, for each.


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> Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
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