On Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:16:34 +0200 Jonas Ådahl <jad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 10:05:39AM -0400, Drew DeVault wrote: > > On 2018-04-13 4:02 PM, Jonas Ådahl wrote: > > > > > > > - Xwayland can name the X11 outputs based on their genuine names rather > > > > than assigning e.g. XWAYLAND0 > > > > > > If the protocol is loosly specified as in it's not known what format > > > you'll get, I don't think Xwayland can make any use of this. > > > > Can you elaborate on what expectations Xwayland would have? I am open to > > restricting the format a bit, e.g. to ASCII characters or so. > > If we'd add quotation marks, spaces etc I'm sure many things would break > here and there. If we start adding such restrictions, it'd hardly be > suitable as a "human readable" kind of thing. I believe what Jonas says as well. It could lead to another variant of https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94589 or such. Restricting to a suitable set would pretty much remove the human-friendlyness from the name. Thanks, pq
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