Merging KAuth into KDELibs

[David Jarvie]

On Monday 28 Sep 2009 14:07:52 Dario Freddi wrote:
> On Saturday 26 September 2009 00:17:28 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > Vendredi, le 25 septembre 2009, à 23:57, Dario Freddi a écrit:
> > > On Friday 25 September 2009 21:28:03 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > > Has something already been done about this ?
> > >
> > > If we want to, we must do this fast. I would be changing the namespace
> > > to KAuthorization, the directory name to kdecore/authorization and the
> > > cmake macros accordingly. I need confirmation on that: the earlier the
> > > better. If we want to change the name I want to do that by next week at
> > > the latest
> >
> > +1 for KAuthorization
> >
> > Or even better, create a non-generic name for this, cmp. Sonnet, Phonon,
> >  etc.
> >
> > Something with Direttiva or similar perhaps...
> 
> I really like Direttiva as a name. Would that be fine even if it's inside
> kdecore? (eg kdelibs/kdecore/direttiva)

IMO, for small modules, it is much better to use names which reflect the 
contents. Using names like Phonon etc. is fine for major modules which 
everybody is aware of and which KDE wants to create publicity about, but for 
things like KAuth/KAuthorization it just makes things obscure for no obvious 
gain. Reading code which refers to a class 'Direttiva' doesn't really give 
much clue as to what it's about, unless you already know the name. It's a good 
way of raising the barrier for new people getting into KDE coding.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KDE developer.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm