[PATCHv3] Add name event to xdg-output

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:16:34 +0200
Jonas Ådahl <jadahl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 10:05:39AM -0400, Drew DeVault wrote:
> > On 2018-04-13  4:02 PM, Jonas Ådahl wrote:  
> > > 

> > > > - Xwayland can name the X11 outputs based on their genuine names rather
> > > >   than assigning e.g. XWAYLAND0  
> > > 
> > > If the protocol is loosly specified as in it's not known what format
> > > you'll get, I don't think Xwayland can make any use of this.  
> > 
> > Can you elaborate on what expectations Xwayland would have? I am open to
> > restricting the format a bit, e.g. to ASCII characters or so.  
> 
> If we'd add quotation marks, spaces etc I'm sure many things would break
> here and there. If we start adding such restrictions, it'd hardly be
> suitable as a "human readable" kind of thing.

I believe what Jonas says as well. It could lead to another variant of
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94589
or such. Restricting to a suitable set would pretty much remove the
human-friendlyness from the name.


Thanks,
pq
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