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>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Dodd <dirk@loth.demon.co.uk> wrote:

Steve> Stefan Davids <smd@hopf.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Irix does this (and using/admining that is an extreme displeasure).
>> Interestingly it also appears to need a listening process to manage to
>> show icons in its icon tray.  

Steve> The latter /might/ be justifiable, I suppose. X is supposed to
Steve> be network transparent. Though I'm too tired to get my head
Steve> around the IPC issues involved in an icon tray. Brain hurts.

Ah well it actually uses it as a sort of clearing house for filesystem
changes.  So the kernel informs this application when something
changes, then the application informs whatever other applications
might be interested which can then update themselves as appropriate.

And of course it has to be a listening process so that it works across
networks and can monitor NFS filesytems by talking to similar
processes on the various host computers.  I'm torn between thinking
this is a clever idea and an utterly deranged one.  I suppose it might
be a cleverly deranged one.

Network transparent icon trays - what fun!

Anyway to drag this back on topic for ucol, has anyone tried SGI Linux
on an Indy?  

Stefan