[PATCH] KUser and new class KGroup

Simon Hausmann hausmann at kde.org
Fri Jun 4 13:42:25 BST 2004


On Friday 04 June 2004 14:39, Jan Schäfer wrote:
> On Friday 04 June 2004 12:46, Zack Rusin wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 June 2004 12:00, Jan Schäfer wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have written a new class KGroup which represents a UNIX group.
> > > It is very similar to KUser.
> > > I also added some new methods to KUser.
> > > What do you think? Can I commit?
> >
> > Besides the comments listed here, two commensts/questions:
> > 1) what applications are using it?
>
> Currently only the new file sharing code that is located in
> kdenetwork/filesharing. As soon as the patch is accepted, I will commit the
> code that uses it.
> Besides, I think that many applications could use that code and I am
> actually wondering why nobody wrote that class yet (or wrote one but did
> not include it in kdelibs).

Probably because it actually is much less common for applications to need/use 
than it appears :) .

Actually, what other use-cases are you thinking of?

Simon




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