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.

Rahul