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 02:13:19PM +0200, Peter Bortas set free these words:
> Toshio Kuratomi <badger@prtr-13.ucsc.edu> writes:
> 
> > Now that raster and you appear to think that apps setting wm hints is the way
> > to go, how can you still claim that color-reactiveness does not need
> > re-engineering of apps to take advantage of this?
> 
> Of course. You just set the hints from another program. In most cases
> that program would probe for something like /proc. I don't see the
> problem.
> 
The problem is that some people were very adamant about not using /proc
because it is OS specific.  As excluding finding out such information from the
OS is the only way to decide what's going on without rewriting apps (that
I know of) I want to know whether people are going to accept that they need
/proc (or libgtop or something that abstracts but still uses the system
provided methods) or if they are going to stop saying "this won't require
modifying legacy programs at all."

I want someone to acknowledge that they can't have it both ways and lay out a
suitable plan for which path they plan to take.

-Toshio
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