Re: Separating GdkAtom and Atom

[Erwann Chenede <Erwann Chenede Sun COM>]

Hi Owen,

[..]
>> > - Finalize the naming scheme
>> 
>> What else is there to finalize ?
>
>I checked in the gdk_x11_xatom_to_atom names to HEAD, so I guess
>we need to decide between renaming gdk_x11_get_virtual_atom() to
>
> gdk_x11_xatom_to_atom_for_display()
> gdk_x11_display_xatom_to_atom()
>
>if we want to stay consistent. I don't care much one way or the
>other; the gdk_x11_display() name is a little more "OO", but 
>the _for_display() name would fit more closely with most of the
>multihead names that you've added.

I think the gdk_x11_display prefix would make more sense as 
X atoms are really closely related to displays and also because
I tried only to used the _for_display postfix when introducing a 
multihead variant to an ordinary existing public API.

Hoping this makes sense...

	Erwann


>
>Regards,
>                                        Owen
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