Component clarification

[Kevin Gunn]

Don't take me wrong, i'm all for making things less confusing.
But to the statement the "whole project is about graphics" isn't completely
true imho, there's also input. To me anything that's related to reading,
writing, manipulating pixel data is worthy of being referred to as graphics.

I'm ok with "state & implementation code" changing from "surface" to
"core". I'm sure others will weigh in.
to be clear, a "surface" is any buffer/container of pixel data that a
app/compositor wants rendered (potentially placed on screen)

also, just challenging (as i really don't know the answer)...but is
mir::gbm heading down a "confusing" path?? is it _really_ gbm specific ? or
is it also specific to other things (drm, kms etc)...?
also...alot of people don't know what "gbm" is outside of graphics stack
junkies (i had to explain what it was to a very savvy person just
yesterday...that when mir team says "gbm" they really mean desktop)
also consider this...you suggested "android"....not "gralloc"...food for
thot
br,kg


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Daniel van Vugt <
daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com> wrote:

> OK, let's try again. There seems to be reasonable agreement that at least
> some components are poorly named and therefore confusing. Of course, any
> change requires significant search and replace in the least so I'd like to
> discuss it before any proposals occur.
>
> How about...
>
> mir::surfaces:: --> mir::core::
> This component already represents the core platform-independent state and
> implementation code. So rather than call it "surfaces" which confuses the
> numerous existing Surface classes (75% of which are not in the "surfaces"
> component), why not call the component "core" or some such?
>
> mir::graphics::*:: --> mir::platform::*:: or
> mir::graphics::*:: --> mir::*::
> The whole project is about graphics so we need to stop calling one
> component "graphics". This component already represents the
> platform-specific code. So why not name it "platform" or even remove the
> word "platform"/"graphics" completely and use the actual platform name
> mir::gbm::, mir::android:: etc?
>
> - Daniel
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