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

[Bruce Stephens <bruce cenderis demon co uk>]

Toshio Kuratomi <badger@prtr-13.ucsc.edu> writes:

> The problem is that some people were very adamant about not using
> /proc because it is OS specific.

I think the problem was that the /proc thing wasn't cleanly separated
out: it seemed too central to the idea.  The proposal is that new apps
will set the hints themselves, and there would be a new process which
will monitor /proc (or equivalents in other operating systems) and set
hints for old apps.  

The displaying program *only* needs to monitor the hints, and so can
be portable; the clients only set hints, so they can be portable.  So
we've just got the /proc glue which is non-portable, which only
affects legacy clients.

That seems much more acceptable, as a general solution.  Can you see
anything wrong with it?