On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 05:31:20PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 06:22:16PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > > This patch adds a new element <title> to the domain XML. This attribute > > can hold a short title defined by the user to ease the identification of > > domains. The title is limited to 40 bytes and can't contain newlines. > > I'm not convinced that putting a hard limit on the title length > is a good idea. That feels like a limitation just to suit the > display used in virsh. If an app only has space to show 40 > characters, then it is free to truncate and append '...' Agreed; virsh can do what it wants with the data. > Also note that 40 bytes may be equivalent to as few as 12-15 > printable characters in UTF-8 with non-western languages > since single characters can take 3 bytes or even more > > Daniel > -- > |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| > |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| > |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| > |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| > > -- > libvir-list mailing list > libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list