[PATCH wayland* weston 00/10] hyphenate compound adjectives

Yong Bakos junk at humanoriented.com
Thu Apr 28 16:57:51 UTC 2016


From: Yong Bakos <ybakos at humanoriented.com>

The following ten patches:

1) hyphenate all occurrences of surface local and window local
2) remove 'local' from one occurrence of 'buffer local' where the use of
   'local' is superfluous.
3) correct minor grammar errors within lines changed by 1 above

The patches affect wayland, weston, wayland-web and wayland-protocols,
per recent discussion. In all cases, these are only documentation changes,
and patch 10/10 is the one that affects wayland.xml.

The rationale is that 'foo local coordinates' uses a compound adjective,
'foo local', which should be hyphenated. Standardizing upon the correct
grammar helps authors adhere to what is correct.

In addition to consulting the existing precedent in Wayland projects, I also
consulted the 'greater literature', which indicates that:

1) 'surface local' is common, but also grammatically incorrect
2) 'window-local' is common
3) 'buffer local', in any form, is not common (at all) and is superfluous

Patch summary:

wayland-web, Yong Bakos (1):
  architecture: Hyphenate compound adjective window-local

 architecture.html | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

weston, Yong Bakos (5):
  desktop-shell: Use 'surface-local' to correct grammar
  fullscreen-shell: Use 'surface-local' to correct grammar
  ivi-layout: Correct coordinate adjective grammar, misspellings
  ivi-application: Hyphenate compound adjective surface-local
  compositor: Hyphenate compound adjective surface-local

 desktop-shell/shell.c               |  2 +-
 fullscreen-shell/fullscreen-shell.c |  2 +-
 ivi-shell/ivi-layout.c              | 16 ++++++++--------
 protocol/ivi-application.xml        |  2 +-
 src/compositor.c                    |  2 +-
 5 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

wayland-protocols, Yong Bakos (2):
  pointer-constraints: Use 'surface-local' in simplified parameter
    summary
  tablet: Hyphenate compound adjective surface-local

 .../pointer-constraints/pointer-constraints-unstable-v1.xml    |  4 ++--
 unstable/tablet/tablet-unstable-v1.xml                         | 10 +++++-----
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

wayland, Yong Bakos (2):
  doc: Hyphenate compound adjectives window-local, surface-local
  protocol: Hyphenate compound adjective surface-local

 doc/publican/sources/Architecture.xml |  4 +--
 doc/publican/sources/Protocol.xml     |  2 +-
 protocol/wayland.xml                  | 50 +++++++++++++++++------------------
 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

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