Attica moved to kdereview

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Thursday 05 November 2009 19:50:02 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> 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.

As far as I know, it's exclusively for OCS. It would of course be cool, if it 
supported more than one API/Service, but I don't think it does that (yet?).
-- 
sebas

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