Hi fellow hackers,
I'm working on documentation fixes within wayland.xml and I'm noticing two 
major inconsistencies that I would like to address. The first is 
writing-related.

Some enum entry summary attribute values start with a capital letter, while the 
majority do not. I'd like to standardize this so all attribute summaries are 
consistent. Are we cool with me fixing the inconsistencies in existing summary 
values? Example:

<entry name="pointer" value="1" summary="The seat has pointer devices"/>

Would become:

<entry name="pointer" value="1" summary="the seat has pointer devices"/>

More importantly, I'd like to incorporate some simple "writing rules" in a 
style guide for wayland.xml. 

Second, the existing whitespace "rule" that is followed is a bit inconsistent. 
In short, the precedent is "use two spaces to indent, unless you're indenting 
>= 8 spaces, in which case use a tab and use a tab width of 8 spaces in your 
editor." This isn't followed consistently, and a simple rule would be "indent 
two spaces."

I know that whitespace fixes can clutter a blame, but blame's -w option should 
alleviate this annoyance. I'd like to a) standardize the whitespace in 
wayland.xml and b) add the rule to the style guide. (Note: This isn't about 
tabs v spaces, rather, just making sure that all indentation follows the same 
rule. I do personally feel a more simple rule "indent 2 spaces" is easier to 
follow than the existing convention, which has led to the inconsistency.)

To summarize, I'd like to know if you'd be ok with these two kinds of changes 
(capitalization and whitespace), and that I'll create a patch for a style guide 
that we can comment on separately.

Thanks for your time and all things Wayland,
yong


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