[MeeGo-dev] Wayland effort in 1.3 - planning, discussion, activities, etc

Bernd Stramm bernd.stramm at gmail.com
Sat Jun 18 14:51:03 PDT 2011


On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 23:33:59 +0200
Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:

> Em Friday, 17 de June de 2011, às 11:52:15, Arjan van de Ven escreveu:
> > >> https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/blobs/4.7/src/plugins/gfxdrivers/powerv
> > >> r/QWSWSEGL/pvrqwswsegl.c 
> > > 
> > > What?  That's abundantly clear!  PVR is the hardware platform (or
> > > maybe it's a reference to their PVR2D API).  WSEGL is Khronos'
> > > internal abstraction layer for platform integration.  And QWS is
> > > all your fault anyway.
> > > 
> > > I will admit to some amusement that "window system" appears twice
> > > in that mega-acroynm.
> > 
> > as punishment Thiago gets to pronounce this thing fast 10 times in
> > a row (and if he gets it wrong the count resets)
> 
> We can give it a more descriptive name like 
> QAbstractDynamicGraphicsSystemControllerInterface. See
> http://bit.ly/mb1RgR

This might violate a little know EU regulation, which says that API
symbol names have to fit within each member country. 

Malta could get you in trouble in this case.

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Bernd Stramm
bernd.stramm at gmail.com



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