Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/4] xml: Add element to allow short description of domains</span></a></span> </h1> <p class="darkgray font13"> <span class="sender pipe"><a href="/search?l=libvir-list@redhat.com&q=from:%22Peter+Krempa%22" rel="nofollow"><span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Peter Krempa</span></span></a></span> <span class="date"><a href="/search?l=libvir-list@redhat.com&q=date:20120127" rel="nofollow">Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:30:45 -0800</a></span> </p> </div> <div itemprop="articleBody" class="msgBody"> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <pre style="margin: 0em;"> Dňa 27.1.2012 20:03, Dave Allan wrote / napísal(a): </pre><blockquote style="border-left: #5555EE solid 0.2em; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0.85em"><pre style="margin: 0em;"> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 05:31:20PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: </pre><blockquote style="border-left: #5555EE solid 0.2em; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0.85em"><pre style="margin: 0em;"> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 06:22:16PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: </pre><blockquote style="border-left: #5555EE solid 0.2em; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0.85em"><pre style="margin: 0em;"> This patch adds a new element<title> to the domain XML. This attribute can hold a short title defined by the user to ease the identification of domains. The title is limited to 40 bytes and can't contain newlines. </pre></blockquote><pre style="margin: 0em;"></pre><pre> I'm not convinced that putting a hard limit on the title length is a good idea. That feels like a limitation just to suit the display used in virsh. If an app only has space to show 40 characters, then it is free to truncate and append '...' </pre></blockquote><pre style="margin: 0em;"> Agreed; virsh can do what it wants with the data. </pre></blockquote><pre style="margin: 0em;"> Ok, there's no problem to lift that restriction. Peter </pre><blockquote style="border-left: #5555EE solid 0.2em; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0.85em"><pre style="margin: 0em;"> </pre><blockquote style="border-left: #5555EE solid 0.2em; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0.85em"><pre style="margin: 0em;"> Also note that 40 bytes may be equivalent to as few as 12-15 printable characters in UTF-8 with non-western languages since single characters can take 3 bytes or even more Daniel -- |: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://berrange.com">http://berrange.com</a> -o- <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/</a> :| |: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://libvirt.org">http://libvirt.org</a> -o- <a rel="nofollow" href="http://virt-manager.org">http://virt-manager.org</a> :| |: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://autobuild.org">http://autobuild.org</a> -o- <a rel="nofollow" href="http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/">http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/</a> :| |: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://entangle-photo.org">http://entangle-photo.org</a> -o- <a rel="nofollow" href="http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc">http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc</a> :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list</a> </pre></blockquote></blockquote><pre style="margin: 0em;"> -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list</a></pre> </div> <div class="msgButtons margintopdouble"> <ul class="overflow"> <li class="msgButtonItems"><a class="button buttonleft " accesskey="p" href="msg51185.html">Previous message</a></li> <li class="msgButtonItems textaligncenter"><a class="button" accesskey="c" href="index.html#51205">View by thread</a></li> <li class="msgButtonItems textaligncenter"><a class="button" accesskey="i" href="maillist.html#51205">View by date</a></li> <li class="msgButtonItems textalignright"><a class="button buttonright " accesskey="n" href="msg51223.html">Next message</a></li> </ul> </div> <a name="tslice"></a> <div class="tSliceList margintopdouble"> <ul class="icons monospace"> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg51162.html">[libvirt] [PATCH 0/4] API for modification of domain me...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Peter Krempa</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg51163.html">[libvirt] [PATCH 4/4] qemu: Add support for virDom...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Peter Krempa</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg51222.html">Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 4/4] qemu: Add support fo...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Eric Blake</span></li> </ul></li> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg51164.html">[libvirt] [PATCH 2/4] API: Add api to set and get ...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Peter Krempa</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg51220.html">Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/4] API: Add api to set ...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Eric Blake</span></li> </ul></li> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg51165.html">[libvirt] [PATCH 1/4] xml: Add element <title&g...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Peter Krempa</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg51167.html">Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/4] xml: Add element <...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Daniel P. 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