[Xcb] [PATCH] xfixes: Update to version 5

[Neil Roberts]

Bart Massey <bart at cs.pdx.edu> writes:

> I would love to have the names in XCB match the names in the
> spec--this was a design goal of XCB. Those are painful looking names,
> however. I wonder if there's some compromise? --Bart

I wonder if it would be possible to get the spec changed? It looks like
the headers in Xlib don't define an enum and people just directly write
the magic constant numbers so it probably wouldn't affect anyone if it
changed.

- Neil

> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Neil Roberts <neil at linux.intel.com> wrote:

>> In the spec the name of the enum is BarrierDirections and it has
>> values like ‘BarrierPositiveX’. This would end up with painfully long
>> names like this:
>>
>> XCB_XFIXES_BARRIER_DIRECTION_MASK_BARRIER_POSITIVE_X
>>
>> Therefore I went with the same name that you suggested, i.e.
>> ‘DirectionMask’ with values like ‘PositiveX’.
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