[PATCH wayland-protocols] xdg-output: make xdg_output.description mutable

Olivier Fourdan ofourdan at redhat.com
Thu Jul 25 09:17:25 UTC 2019


On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 10:05 AM Jonas Ã…dahl <jadahl at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 08:16:04AM +0000, Simon Ser wrote:
> > The output description is a human-readable text describing the output. Unlike
> > the name which uniquely identifies the output, it's intended to be displayed to
> > the user.
> >
> > It might be desirable for a compositor to update an output's description. For
> > instance, when only one output is plugged in, it's not necessary to dump make,
> > model, serial and connector to the description, something like "Dell U2717D" is
> > enough. However when two identical outputs are plugged in it's necessary to add
> > e.g. the connector type to tell them apart ("Dell U2717D on HDMI"). See [1] for
> > a discussion about this.
> >
> > This commit bumps xdg_output's version to allow compositors to update the
> > property.
>
> Seems fine to me. Want to rebase on top of the deprecation of
> xdg_output.done?

This, with `xdg_output.done` removal, this is:

Acked-by: Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan at redhat.com>

Cheers,
Olivier


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