[Xcb] Bug 6254: remove XCB's xproto/X11 dependency

[Jamey Sharp]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:30:29PM -0500, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
> > The <enum> construct generates very wordy symbols. (Example: enum  {
> > XCBWindowClassInputOutput = 1 } XCBWindowClass; where previously  one
> > only had to deal with InputOutput). You could argue that this is  a
> > feature, though perhaps not for masks. Maybe an option to prefix  the
> > members just with "XCB" and not the full name of the enumeration?
> 
> I really think we need a better way of handling enums.  The names are
> way too unwieldly.  Vincent and I have talked about this but we couldn't
> come up with a good solution.  I really think it needs to be changed
> though, not developer friendly at all.

I like "developer-friendly" where possible, but one response to this is
that I don't expect many people to program directly to XCB. Usually some
toolkit is preferable; only the authors of toolkits, and some libraries
like Cairo and libGL, should care much about XCB's API. My preference
would be an API that closely reflects the protocol documentation. A bit
of typing won't kill anyone.

That said, I'll take patches for a pretty wide variety of approaches at
this point, partly because I don't feel strongly about this part of the
API design and partly because I don't want to go very long without a
solution.

--Jamey
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