Merging KAuth into KDELibs

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Saturday 12 September 2009, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Monday 07 September 2009, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 01:38:43PM -0600, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > On September 5, 2009, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > > dunno. you dismissed KAuthorized as "unmaintained" without
> > > > further comment. if that isn't a reason for concern, then i don't
> > > > know what is.
> > >
> > > it's fairly accurate to say that the kiosk framework is quite
> > > nearly unmaintained.
> >
> > that's certainly true, but not the point.
> >
> > > [explanation KAuth vs. KAuthorized]
> >
> > i suppose that's good enough. :)
> > but it confirms that KAuth is a bad name.
>
> I agree with Ossi. If I would not have followed this discussion I'd
> assume that one is the successor of the other.
>
> KAuth is a bad name in itself because it's an abbreviation of some word
> starting with "auth", like "author". There is no precedent for this in
> the list of namespaces in kdelibs/kdecore.
>
> KAuthorized is a bad name in itself because "authorized" is an
> adjective. IMO we should use nouns for namespaces and class names, e.g.
> KAuthorization or KAuthority (or something else, see below).
>
> BTW, the KAuth namespace lacks a brief description in the API docs. And
> the brief description of the KAuthorized namespace is rather
> useless: "Extracted from kapplication (3.x).". (See
> http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/namespaces.html.)
>
> On Monday 07 September 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > KAuthorized is a nice, simple interface for an
> > > app to ask "should this app show and allow this kind of action?"
>
> KAllowance or KPermission? Yes, I know that this cannot be changed
> before KDE 5.
>
> > > and
> > > KAuth is a nice interface to getting that information from the
> > > system.
>
> IMO it should be renamed to KAuthorization. The Introduction of this

Not sure whether "KAuthorization" is ideal, maybe something longer to make the 
meaning especially with respect to KAuthorized clearer, but beside that, I 
agree with Ingo and Ossi.
And when that renaming happens, I would also vote for renaming the 
subdirectory in svn kdecore/auth/ to kdecore/<the full name it will be/ (I 
was searching for a subdir "kauth" when I was looking for kauth and didn't 
find it, because currently it's named just "auth").

Alex