> On Apr 1, 2016, at 12:41 PM, Bill Spitzak <spit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 12:59 AM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaala...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 09:44:07 +0800 >> Jonas Ådahl <jad...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 06:48:06PM -0500, Yong Bakos wrote: >> > > Hi, >> > > I've been investigating the semantics of the name parameter within >> > > the wl_registry interface, prompted by a recent dialog regarding my >> > > patch of arg summary attributes in wayland.xml. >> >> > I can't say for sure the reason behind using "name", but using "id" >> > would potentially be confused with the object "id"'s. >> >> This potential confusion is exactly the reason. Names are not ids. >> >> >> Thanks, >> pq > > The word "name" strongly implies that the data is a string. It does not > help that right next to it is "interface" which *is* a string. > > Some variation of "server's id" would be clearer.
I agree. And while I recognize pq's assertion that names are not ids, the fact is that name's value is assigned display->id. I'm digging into this more. yong _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
