On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 04:55:44PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > > > There are 32 possible capabilites, so you'll quickly exceed the width > > of terminals just listing capabilities, in this format. You could try > > and decide on shortened names to < 5 characters each, but it isn't > > going to be so readable, nor very short for lots of caps > > > > w, r, x are not really that readable either. It is just short, familiar and > memorable. once we get short notations with a option to list what it means > in full, we can adopt to that. You only have 3 letters to remember the name of and you encounter them on a daily basis, so its easily rememberable. Give every capability even a 5 letter long code and few will ever be able to remember what they mean. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
