EGL_MESA_choose_display version 1

[Adam Jackson]

On Sunday 03 July 2005 13:30, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 7/3/05, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> > > It might be better to stay X-like and use :N instead of display/N.
> >
> > Argh.  Did you read the proposal?  The whole point of doing transport/id
> > is to make it easy to parse.
>
> I didn't mean a general switch of the syntax I was only thinking about
> the local display case. Is the current X server user base used to :N
> or do they even care? If they care we might want to allow either
> display/N or :N.

People who want GLX transport will use the glx/ schema, which takes a valid 
$DISPLAY as the RHS of the /.  People who want to address the first display 
in the system (in the /dev/fb0 sense) will say display/0.

Either way, these really aren't meant to be user-visible strings.

- ajax
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