[Xcb] XCB convenient functions

[Vincent Torri]

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Barton C Massey wrote:

> 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.

Ok, i find that better than 'convenient' and it's faster to write :)
Ok, for the X convention. I change that

Thank you, both of you :)

Vincent

>
> 	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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