On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Matthias Hopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 07, 08 18:48:18 +0100, Maarten Maathuis wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Matthias Hopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Oct 28, 08 22:44:35 +0100, Maarten Maathuis wrote: >> >> Is there any chance to get rid of strings in the protocol/server >> >> altogether and stick to standardised "names" and properties (in the >> >> form of enums) as much as possible? >> > >> > Sounds reasonable to me. We should still stick to ATOMs to make this >> > extensible, but for the standardized values we should have standardized >> > ATOMs. >> >> Just to be clear, i was also referring to output names, which have a >> habit to be slightly different pretty much everywhere. > > I don't see that coming ATM. There are at least two different > interpretations of what RandR outputs actually are, both with different > pros and cons. > > We had a discussion on the radeonhd mailinglist whether to move to the > interpretation used e.g. by radeon, but that would kill a few special > cases, and consensus (well, that might be too strong a word, say >50%) > was that we should stick with the current interpretation, with slightly > less complicated names.
Perhaps now would be the time to standardise on a beheaviour, my personal opinion is that, the user should see something that represents the connectors on the back of their computer. Anything else should become a property of that connector (since it's automatic in 99% of the cases). Was there any good reason in that discussion to do otherwise? > Matthias > > -- > Matthias Hopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ __ __ > Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ R & D www.mshopf.de > _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
