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

[Toshio Kuratomi <badger prtr-13 ucsc edu>]

On Sun, 24 May, 1998 at 10:45:14PM +0100, Bruce Stephens set free these words:
> 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.  
> 
Yes, this seems quite good... So there would be programs which monitor and
display depending on hints (WMs are natural, but there could also be little
display apps that pull all the elements into one box if someone wanted to
write it....)  There would be programs that could set hints for themselves.
And there would be a third program (maybe using libgtop) that set hints on
apps that didn't set the hints themselves.

Seems reasonable, all correct?

-Toshio
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