Merging KAuth into KDELibs

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Fri Sep 25 20:28:03 BST 2009


On Saturday 12 September 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> 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.

Has something already been done about this ?

Alex




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