Attica moved to kdereview

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday, 2009-11-05, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 November 2009 17:20:15 Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
> > after spending some time with libattica, we decided that now is a good
> >  point to get a review for it and eventually have it used in KDE.
> >
> > Currently libattica comes in two parts, a Qt-only library and a plugin
> > that provides KDE integration.
> > It would make sense to have the Qt-only library be part of kdesupport and
> > the plugin in KDE proper.
> > Some things can be found in a branch:
> > branches/work/attica/kcm - a kcm to controll open collaboration service
> > providers
> > branches/work/attica/plasma - port of the opendesktop plasmoid to the
> > updated lib
> > branches/work/attica/ocs - the plasma data engine
> > branches/work/attica/ocs/example - a simple example how to use attica
> 
> Any good reasons to not call it libocs? That sounds much more descriptive
>  to me, given that it's all about Open Collaboration Services. While attica
>  is a nice name, we should use descriptive names for libraries. Apps can
>  indeed be more creative...

Probably depends whether it can be used for any other REST based service, in 
which case naming it after one of them might lead to people reinventing the 
wheel when searching for a Qt base API for talking to such services.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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