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
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