[winswitch] [xpra] Missleading Help Description

Peter Swain swine at pobox.com
Wed May 27 07:14:45 BST 2015


Ok, 'enable' is not in the name, just the explanation. Was replying in
haste from small screen phone. I've found the separation of the --no-xxx
entries confusing myself, in xpra & other things

On Tue, May 26, 2015, 11:09 PM Peter Swain <swine at pobox.com> wrote:

> They are the same option, in positive/negative form, and 'enable' is in
> the name. But perhaps it would be clearer, and more concise, if all such
> --xxx/--no-xxx pairs were collapsed together in the help text.
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2015, 10:38 PM Christian Trenkwalder <
> christian.trenkwalder at nxp.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> if i call
>> >xpra --help
>> It gives a short description of the available options, 2 of them are
>> contradicting it seems
>>
>> >    --dbus-proxy        Enable forwarding of dbus calls from the client
>> >                        (default: enabled)
>> >   --no-dbus-proxy     Disable forwarding of dbus calls from the client
>> >                       (default: enabled)
>>
>> I don't think its right that both options are enabled by default, or do I
>> misunderstand something?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Christian Trenkwalder
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