KUser -> kdecore

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Thu Sep 18 23:31:02 BST 2003


On Thursday 18 September 2003 23:36, Tim Jansen wrote:
> hi..
>
> I'de like to move the class KUser to kdecore. You can currently find
> it in kdenetwork/krfb/srvloc/
> (http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdenetwork/krfb/srvloc/).
>
> The class offers a object-oriented interface to the getuid(2),
> geteuid(2) and getpwnam(3) POSIX functions and is able to parse GECOS
> fields correctly.
>
> It is currently used in krfb and danimo asked for it to fix
> GECOS-related problems (like the one in KCMEmail).

We also do some parsing of GECOS fields in KMail. So a general solution 
in kdelibs would be nice.

Regards,
Ingo
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