Why are methods like KIO::open_RenameDialog(), not called KIO::RenameDialog::open()?

[David Faure]

On Thursday 31 May 2007, Richard Dale wrote:
> Well my point is that I can't see any reason why these methods are in a 
> namespace instead of in the classes that they could belong to as static 
> methods. If the original class name has to be encoded in the method name 
> like 'open_MyClassname', then it looks like some sort of workround to a 
> problem in C++, that an elegant naming scheme to me (imho underscores and 
> camel case don't mix). It is just as easy to type KIO::RenameDialog::open() 
> as KIO::open_RenameDialog().

Yes this is old cruft (and *mostly* internal API anyway), feel free to make it KIO::RenameDialog::open().

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