[PATCH 1/3] wayland: Add wl_output name event

[Bryce W. Harrington]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 01:54:13AM +0000, Wang, Quanxian wrote:
> [Wang, Quanxian] Thanks Bryce.
> >I glanced at the other patches and they look technically correct, but I think what
> >might be missing here is a stronger justification about why this is needed?

> [Wang, Quanxian] name is one property of output which is assigned
> detected by backend. In compositor, it is visible. Why is it assigned
> as a name in compositor? I think display it in compositor logs will be
> one of reason. Therefore the same thing in client.  At the same time,
> it provides a good communication with compositor as a choice. Client
> could take it as a parameter to communicate with compositor, instead
> of only by wl_output object. I like your word 'human-readable'
> especially for client. Give client a choice to communicate with
> compositor without wl_output object, and also give client a choice to
> display human-readable name in log which is visible to
> customer. Currently I am designing weston randr protocol,
> customer(admin or developer) could input a char name to stand for an
> output from command line. It is just one usage. Anyway, name of output

That's a good example to include for justification; maybe include
mention of the randr use case in your commit message.

> should be visible for both of compositor and client.
> 

> >> +      </description>
> >> +      <arg name="name" type="string" summary="name of output"/>
> >> +    </event>
> >>    </interface>
> >>
> >>    <interface name="wl_region" version="1">
> >> --
> >> 1.8.1.2
> >>
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