[Xcb] XCB convenient functions

[Barton C Massey]

I suggest XCBAux instead of XCBConvenient, and following the
XCB capitalization conventions.  If I use the stuff,
switching caps conventions will drive me even more nuts
than the bad X convention does.

	Bart

In message <20050402163439.GB1285 at minilop.net> you wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 04:59:43PM +0200, Vincent Torri wrote:
> > Hello,
> 
> Hi Vincent!
> 
> > I've added some convenient functions in the cvs
> > (xcb-util/convenient/xcb_convenient.*)
> > 
> > Do you think i should change the name of the functions, so that hthey
> > match the XCB naming ? (like XCBConnectionDepthGet or
> > XCBConnectionGetDepth instead of xcb_connection_depth_get)
> > 
> > do you have other functions that you would like to be added ?
> 
> It's all kind of up to you. There's no particular need for libraries
> outside of XCB to match XCB's naming convention which, FWIW, is not a
> convention I love: it was chosen to be similar to Xlib's naming. I think
> it makes sense for XCBImage to be similar, since it's a clone of XImage.
> Anything else can be considered separately.
> 
> Libraries definitely should be namespaced, though, in the sense that a
> library named xcb_convenient should have functions named
> xcb_convenient_* or XCBConvenient* or something. (Ironically, this makes
> the name xcb_convenient quite... inconvenient...)
> 
> As for the scope of this particular library, "anything that's
> convenient" is a very broad scope, so obviously more functions could be
> added. Probably the scope should be narrowed, though I'm not sure what
> to suggest. Regardless, that's easy to fix later: first you try building
> stuff, then you find out whether it's what you actually wanted, and if
> it isn't, then you try again.
> 
> --Jamey
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