Peter Hutterer wrote: >>> - I'd prefer a commandline-switch --by-type to trigger this, rather than >>> guessing from the name of the device. >> Yeah, that's more extensible and more work - likely I'd have to revamp >> parsing. This change doesn't block that path, so this can be done when >> ambiguous cases show up. > > no, this change should be done before we let the new notation in. otherwise it > just gets too confusing. also, historically, commandline switches are to > specify further options, not "magic" parsing of user-given parameters. > > Sorry, but I'll leave the patch out for now until we have the --by-type > support. Problem is: some invokations (setcp, list-props) are in a loop. I didn't check why exactly this is so, but if it's an important use case then it becomes awkward to mix notations that way.
In any case, I can't do that anytime soon. Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
