Merging KAuth into KDELibs

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Sat Sep 12 15:51:51 BST 2009


On September 12, 2009, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> 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).

agreed.

> 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.

yes, something to be revisited then.

> Having two namespaces KAuthorization and KAuthorized is surely not more
> confusing than having two namespaces KAuth and KAuthorized.

i think it's actually less confusing. +1 for KAuthorization.

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