history/semantics of uint32_t name

Fri Apr 1 07:59:37 UTC 2016

On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 09:44:07 +0800
Jonas Ådahl <jadahl at 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
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