The word "name" strongly implies that the data is a string. It does not help that right next to it is "interface" which *is* a string.
Some variation of "server's id" would be clearer. On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 12:59 AM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaala...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 09:44:07 +0800 > Jonas Ådahl <jad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 06:48:06PM -0500, Yong Bakos wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I've been investigating the semantics of the name parameter within > > > the wl_registry interface, prompted by a recent dialog regarding my > > > patch of arg summary attributes in wayland.xml. > > > I can't say for sure the reason behind using "name", but using "id" > > would potentially be confused with the object "id"'s. > > This potential confusion is exactly the reason. Names are not ids. > > > Thanks, > pq > > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel > >
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