[Xcb] RFC: <event ... generic="true"> or <genericevent ...>?

[Daniel Martin]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 08:20:43PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 01:19:16AM +0100, Daniel Martin wrote:
> > here's something else we need for XI2: Generic Events
> > 
> > In XI2 all events are generic events. The header of generic events
> > differs from standard events and therefor, we need to mark such events
> > that they need this generic event header.
> 
> All events, or just the events large enough to need more space than the
> standard event structure has available?

Every event. Numbering for those events starts at 1 too. (The generic
header prevents clashes as the number goes into the evtype field.)
    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/inputproto/tree/XI2.h#n182

> > One way could be to add an additional boolean attribute "generic" to the
> > event element:
> >     <event ... generic="true">
> > Which would be false by default and true for generic events.
> > 
> > Or we could add a new element "genericevent":
> >     <genericevent ...>
> > If we choose this one, we should add an "genericeventcopy" too. Just for
> > the nameing convention.
> > 
> > 
> > I would prefer the first solution (a new attribute). Anyone against
> > that? So, speak up now or ... ;)
> 
> I would strongly prefer the attribute as well.  I'd suggest calling the
> attribute "xge", though, to match the extension.  That seems less
> confusing than "generic", particularly since XCB uses "generic event"
> for its structure for unidentified normal X11 events.

Thanks, "xge" is definitly much better.